Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subject of Mr. E. C. Stedman's Phi Beta Kappa poem is to be "Hawthorne...
...leaves, the same performance is gone through with. If he meets a small boy in the street, the small boy gracefully touches his cap. The people who have been most intimately connected with this reform movement have naturally felt some delicacy in having it noised abroad and made the subject of general comment until the success of their experiment was fully assured. Judging, however, from the results above given, I think that they have every reason to be sanguine for the future...
...much has been said about the goodies, and about their methods of cleaning rooms, and so little notice has been taken of these complaints, that any further remarks on the subject seem entirely useless. Still, if anything can be said to convince the Corporation of the reality of this grievance, it ought to be published. At least the attempt ought to be made to persuade them to procure better servants for the ensuing year...
...behooves Seventy-eight, if she wishes to keep up this time-honored custom of our fathers, to take warning. Already there is noticeable among men who hold a prominent position, both in the class and in the Faculty, an attempt to chill all ardor on this subject, with the hope that, being an unnecessary if not childish practice, unworthy of the consideration of men of mature judgment, Class Day, once the brightest day in the student's calendar, will eventually...
...Hamilton Literary Monthly is remarkable for the shortness of its articles. Although in a college paper long articles are insufferable, the case of a magazine is different; and such a subject as "The Moors in Spain," or "Womanhood in Shakespeare and Milton," or again, "The Unity of the Bible," if broached at all, should be treated at length. The Hamilton editors probably think that "brevity is the soul of wit"; in reading their last issue we must confess that we " start, for soul is wanting there...