Word: presentism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...steamers on all the lines rarely sail without a full complement of passengers, including America's best and most respected citizens. Such is the regularity of our steamship communication with Europe that the formerly much-dreaded dangers of the sea are almost overlooked, till some such accident as the present warns us of the dreadful chance that still remains, after all human precautions are taken. We learn with sorrow that this calamity comes home to some of our number with a shock of almost stunning severity, and we feel constrained to express our heartfelt sympathy to them. Our feelings...
...infused into college journalism at Cornell this year has already been commented upon by us. To one of their new publications belongs the credit of originating a new and useful project, - for a system of regular intercollegiate correspondence. To this enterprise we gladly promise our aid, and hope to present to our readers in every number a few notes of what is going on in the department of base-ball, foot-ball, and boating, or other interesting events, at Cornell, at least. In time we may hear, in the same manner, from other colleges. As this plan has but just...
Fine writing, we are confident, is not the desideratum in a college paper of the present time. Our numerous predecessors aspired to long and highly literary articles, and failed; their wrecks, scattered along the course of college journalism here, serve to warn college papers of the present day not to follow their course, if they would prosper. That this ought not to be the case is clear from one point of view. A college paper ought to present to the world a specimen of the best intellectual productions of the undergraduates. But the best men in college will not write...
...must accommodate ourselves to the present surrounding conditions, however unfortunate they may be, and make college papers as full of matters of general interest as possible. But the news of one college is well known to its undergraduates before it can get into the college papers; and thus "Locals" and "Brevities" are generally only a convenient method of preserving in print for future reference facts of interest. Of what is going on at other colleges most of us are in the dark. Our exchanges furnish us with an occasional ray of light on the subject, but these are not seen...
...because, instead of seeking change and novelty during the vacation, we live very much the same kind of life, the zest and tonic of a little study being removed? The student who spends his time entirely among our fashionable resorts, loafing, and playing the gallant to the same ever-present fair ones that throng our assembly-rooms and concert halls in the winter, becomes, through long nursing of his ennui, even less inclined for positive brain-work than before; and if, as is usually the case, his laziness has extended to bodily exercises, he returns to college but little improved...