Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fewest representatives among the editors of this paper. We should be glad to welcome a number of new editors, especially from the sophomore class. There is rooms for three or four sophomores besides those we already have. Another editor from '90 would also be welcomed. We need not say that candidates are accepted strictly according to merit. The requisites are chiefly ability to gather college news and to print it in as attractive and as accurate a manner as the difficult circumstances under which a college daily is conducted will allow. We trust that those of the lower classes...
With regard to the first of these reasons, we would say that we appreciate the value of our library too well to subject it to any possible risk from fire, but by carefully insulating the wires, all danger can be obviated. In the Columbia college library, where the electric lights have been used for several years, the wires are so safely arranged and insulated, that fire is next to impossible...
...behalf of the good name of college journalism we feel called upon to commend heartily the Crimson's dignified reply to the recent sneering attack upon Harvard's athletic methods, in the Columbia Spectator. It is in very bad taste, to say the least, for a paper of the standing which the Spectator has always held hitherto, to ridicule the defeats of another college, and to make the spiteful accusations that it does. We cannot understand the spirit that has prompted the Spectator in these attacks upon other colleges, and are sure it is not that of the better element...
...short contribution, "A Widow of Appomattox to her Son," there is little to say. A faithful mother tells to her son, who is with the Confederate army in the defenses at Petersburg, the vision she has had of his safe return to her side at Appomattox. There is deep pathos in the story...
...Dodge's sketch of Benvenuto Cellini presents vividly some of the characteristic traits of that wonderful man whose history people are never tired of hearing. The writer's style is, it is almost needless to say, pure and vivacious. Well-chosen anecdotes of Benvenuto's life, interspersed with sagacious criticism, make this piece of character study extremely interesting...