Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cambridge Press would perhaps do well to restrict its Harvard correspondent to sign-boards and other similar subjects that give a fair field for the exercise of his somewhat lively imagination; for his attempts to deal with facts are remarkable for brilliancy rather than accuracy, that is, if we can judge from the way in which he speaks of the "electric" system, and from the following Junior forensic subject, as given in the Press, - "Is the popular estimate of Micawber as the ideal historian erroneous...
...said often that Harvard no longer produces literary men. While we do not assent to this sweeping proposition, we do see, in the recent choice of subjects for the next Commencement exercises, an argument in favor of the assertion. Of the nineteen men to whom were assigned Commencement parts, no one of them chose a literary subject: political economy, philosophy, and history were well represented, and one or two men expressed a liking for fine-arts, but literature had no friends. Undoubtedly, many will see in this fact a defect in the instruction given in college; but we think that...
...Michigan University Chronicle, which always is absorbed in some one subject of consuming interest, in its last issue discusses the beauty and general utility of "University Hall." Of the beauty we can get a faint idea from the admission by one of its defenders, that "the facade shows an incongruous mixture of wood, stucco, and galvanized iron,' and that "Mr. Ruskin might writhe in agony at the sight of the building." Without having been to Michigan, we have a fair idea of " University Hall...
...seat and chuckles over a French novel! He always has the French novel, and he never has the lesson. When he is called upon, we fresher Freshmen know that the clever answer will be, "I have no books, sir, -am quite unprepared, -really. know nothing whatever about the subject...
...preserved in Cambridge its primitive meaning, I should like to know it, but my main purpose in writing is to find out whether to summon or to summons is sanctioned by the best usage. If the Crimson, or any of its contributors, can throw any light on this subject they will oblige...