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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more paragraphs in its articles, one would be tempted to read them; but three columns in a single paragraph is more than one cares to undertake. When treating of the oratorical contest under the title of "A Literary Circus," it is certainly not witty, as the following extract will show: "The auburn-whiskered Higginson must have made an irreproachable ring-master. As for lugubrious clowns, representatives of the Darwinian theory and animals which sometimes prefer to "locomote" backward, who can doubt that they put in a large, if not an appreciated representation...
...republican institutions, and say that it is because in this country ignorant men can be elected to office. But the blame is not to be shifted so easily; the fault lies rather in the schools, which have neglected a most important branch of study. Many of those who show such utter incapacity to deal with questions of finance are, in other respects, clear-headed and intelligent. It is not that they are ignorant men, but that, however well informed in other respects, they are ignorant of the very knowledge which is most essential to their position. Failures in business continually...
...Light Producing" College supplies the world with information regarding the forms of etiquette insisted upon at that "centre of refinement." There is also a publication called the College Pen, modest, as it is able, in which the students at Gallatin, Tenn., give to the world productions destined to show the results of their constant application to the study of our mother tongue. To give the readers of the Crimson an idea of the progress Neophogen is making in this "specialty" we shall take the liberty of quoting freely from this "literary gem," as the prospectus of the College Pen justly...
...impossible to do justice to this address without reprinting it in full. The extracts given will show that the praise of the editors was merited...
...only criticism is on the "slipshod, gallicized English" into which students translate French; while in Mathematics it is recommended that the work of the Freshman year be reduced, or that a part of it be transferred to the preparatory schools. This brief review of the report will serve to show how well the work of the committee has been done, and what pertinent suggestions have been made. We shall have something more to say, later, on some of these proposed changes...