Word: presses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Howells has in press a new poem, the subject of which is located in Italy and has to do with art and the times of Titian. It is an experiment in hexameters...
Harpers have in press Mahaffy's "Old Greek Education...
...opinions of other judges who are more competent to decide), we by no means believe him to be a man of "fine poetic achievement," any more than of "grand poetic promise." One who considers the vast amount of mediocre and passable poetry daily ground out by the periodical press, will be shy of putting any great hopes upon such insincere matter as the most of Mr. Wilde's verses. Why, if we will but look into our own hearts, if we will but consider the mass of often excellent and promising poetry annually produced from our own midst, and then...
...institution is beneath the dignity of our ex-president, the Hon. Paul A. Chadbourne. We had supposed that hostilities between the college and Mr. Chadbourne would cease on his withdrawal from office, but it seems, with characteristic spleen, he has chosen to revive the feud by writing to the press a letter slandering Williams in a most ungenerous manner. Great indignation is felt here among faculty and students, and must everywhere be felt among the alumni and friends of the college against Mr. Chadbourne for this action. The cause for this sudden outburst of malice is unknown, but the general...
...dangers and roughness of the game of foot-ball often engages the attention of the English press, and the game is generally severely criticised by them. But the Illustrated London News says of it: "The game of foot-ball has been wisely approved by the almost unanimous verdict of English public-school men, masters, boys and 'old boys,' as the best of disciplinary sports and pastimes with a view to the improvement of the mind - that is to say, the will and spirit, which does not grow strong by book-learning - as much as to that of bodily strength...