Word: questioner
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...order that all sides of the question may be represented we insert the following article, without holding ourselves responsible for its sentiments...
...case a Sophomore is said to have broken squarely the engagement he had made as a Freshman, and, when expostulated with, to have excused himself by saying that he was going to invite a large party of his own friends to visit him on the day in question! The old custom is a pleasant one, and there is no reason that it should be broken up and a general festival of all undergraduates substituted; and it seems but fair that Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors, who hope for courteous treatment from those they will leave behind when they graduate, should...
...masters as any before them; and were it not for the museums of Europe, in which their masterpieces are happily preserved, it would be difficult to say where we could turn for any art education. But these, also, are unaccessible to the mass of Americans, and the question naturally arises, Where are they to look for like advantages? The answer to this question, it seems to me, involves the only new element we can now foresee in the future history of art. Will not America, original and successful as she is in her form of government, educational institutions, and business...
...Advocate's correspondent would have obliged me much more had he desisted from a criticism of my view of what is at best an open question, and had he corrected a mistake which I must beg permission to do myself. I relied on an imperfect memory when I stated that "Calderon the courtier" was an attendant on Charles V. He was the power behind the throne during the reign of Philip III., and played much the same part in Spain that Richelieu did at the court of Louis XIII. of France. This little story of court intrigue would repay...
...novelist had invented them. We also learn that "Dickens was a self-conceited Englishman; Tyndall is a cosmopolitan, as is the case with every true scientist." But enough of this. It is sufficient to say that the rest of the article is in the same senseless style. The great question for us is, What will be the effect of this tremendous article? If The Student has an extended circulation in England, we tremble at the possible result; but if, as we suspect, it only harmlessly circulates in a small part of Illinois, the article may not decrease the sale...