Word: reference
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...time when dispassionate or unrecompensed criticism of the works of our authors is rare enough, there exists for us, as students, a need in criticism that yet more urgently demands to be supplied. I refer to that variety of criticism which has occasionally found a place in our college papers, and which we are sometimes permitted to enjoy in our best American monthlies. It partakes less of the nature of the ordinary iceberg criticism than of the friendly, genial nature of scholarly admiration. It is a result attainable by those who can felicitously express exactly what constitutes the peculiar charm...
...feel at liberty, or rather we feel it our duty, to allude in a very decided manner to certain statements relating to college matters which have lately appeared in the Boston Advertiser. We refer especially to the Advertiser of last Wednesday, in which, among other statements, - none of which, even if true, should have been published in any but a college paper, - the preliminary action of the Senior Societies in reference to the class elections was given...
...seems to me that there is a want which ought before long to be supplied everywhere, and especially here. I refer to the arrangement of a class of preliminary studies especially adapted to the preparation of the young men to take an efficient part in the treatment of difficult questions connected with the management of public affairs." For granted, what is so often urged, that to obtain place one must generally blunt all nice sensibility, indeed, must lose much of his spirit of independence, by sacrificing honest convictions to the demands of party; granted that the populace often prefer...
...anything specific is pointed out, the instructors in that branch are apt to feel that the criticism arises from personal dislike rather than from any existing fault. I most certainly wish to avoid making any such impression, and because I definitely point out the course to which I refer, and endeavor plainly to present my objections to the method in which it is conducted, I hope I shall not be considered as presumptuous or given to a spirit of fault-finding. Why is it that students electing this course are never given an opportunity of inspecting specimens of metals, fossils...
...object to heaviness in its proper place, but it is equally disagreeable in biscuit and in college papers. It is not mere dulness and inanity that we refer to, because such things are likely to happen in the best edited Magenta, but downright, ponderous sermonizing. The Denison Collegian is heavy; never apt to be absolutely feathery, the present number is more soothing and sleep-inviting than any of its predecessors. The first article, "What Next?" is excellent from a theological point of view. Then somebody "does" Herbert Spencer's Philosophy of Style, and this is followed by a "literal translation...