Word: said
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...absurd mistakes, and "resents the impertinent demand on her time and attention." On the whole, the fun seems to be pretty equally divided, only we would suggest that the Yale and Harvard writers pay still less attention to rhetoric and dictionary, for, as it is, their communications are said to be less amusing than the others...
...curriculum and the continual contemplation of merely one subject or set of subjects, defeat the object of honors by warping, more than disciplining and cultivating, the mind. Undoubtedly the age and antecedents of the student determine the advisability of such a course. All that can safely be said is that, for a man of little general reading, little knowledge beyond the text-books of the first two years in college, the exclusiveness of an honor course is extremely deleterious; to a more generally read man, extremely beneficial...
...rolling by the strictures on our religious opinions made during the course of Monday Lectures by the Rev. Joseph Cook, and by the discussion concerning Young Harvard which was carried on in the Transcript. There is no doubt that the men who made these attacks honestly believed what they said, and that they spoke with more or less (we think with less) knowledge of facts. The same was the case with the Independent, which felt called upon to read us a lecture on behavior, but which admitted that the evil practices deplored were confined to a comparative few, and that...
Doubtless every reader of this article has seen still other slurs, many of which were as untrue and pointless as are those which have been cited. What has been said on the other side is not much, but it is to the point. Discussing the impertinence of reporters, George William Curtis, writing in the Easy Chair of Harper's Magazine, well says...
...graduate of Harvard, and he got a position on one of the Philadelphia dailies last week. 'Cut that stuff of yours down,' said the city editor as the new man came in with a column where a stick only was required. 'Do you desire a judicious elimination of the superfluous phraseology?' mildly returned the Harvard man. 'No! Boil it down!' thundered the city ed. The new man is gone now, - gone back to Boston. He says there ain't 'cultuah' enough in Philadelphia...