Word: talents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stand alone. It is but lately that the papers have been filled with the praises of a novel written by a Dartmouth professor of mathematics. This truly is deplorable. The stage and the novel arrayed as enemies of the college ! That so unheard of a thing as conspicuous talent, as genius should be exhibited by a college professor is enough to shake the very foundations of the learned universe. Prof. Beers, of Yale, also we learn is writing stories for the Century and the Continent; and last of all it is reported that a Columbia professor has received an offer...
...much longer permitted we may look next for the appearance of the epidemic even at Harvard. We do not know that ever, of late years at least, a Harvard professor has been guilty of the sin of light literature, or has ever manifested any desire to show a talent that should startle the world ; still it is the unexpected that always happens and we should be on our guard...
...result has been simply that the leading lawyers hardly ever go on the bench, and that the ablest business men will not accept political positions, but take service with the great moneyed corporations. There is, in fact, in our time an immense and most unfortunate diversion of the talent of the country away from the administrative service of the government, mainly owing to the smallness of the pay and the precariousness of the position...
...country, bad policy for the great institutions of learning to hold out the teaching profession to the young men as a little corner reserved in the midst of our luxurious American society for the practice of endurance and fortitude. It ought to be held out to the rising talent of every generation as a calling in which, like all others, a man who loves it and pursues it with zeal can have not only its special and peculiar pleasures but also a fair amount of the material comforts which the bulk of his countrymen seek, and are praised for seeking...
...names assumed by literary or social clubs in some of the colleges are sometimes fearfully and wonderfully constructed. The most curious instance of the peculiar talent of the classical student which manifests itself in inventing these names, we find in the name of a society at Tufts College, which is called the "Zetagathean." Zetagathean, we are inclined to believe, would be hard to beat...