Word: talk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then again, many talk of the influence of Harvard College, as being so different from those of any large gathering of young men. Some parents regard the very name of Harvard as possessing some magical power which will allow one under its influence to enter some charmed circle, as it were, where all is lovely and everything is in his power. Others think our college is the very hot-bed of extravagance and ruinous habits, and that it is impossible for anyone now-a days to pass four years within its classic walls without being misguided...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - While not wishing to seem a grumbler on principle, I think a word against the practice, too common in our English department, of tediously dwelling on the life of an author and rehearsing all the small talk about his actions, might be well-timed; especially, when this practice is allowed to become detrimental to the impartment of a critical knowledge of the said author's works. Short enough time is given in a half course to acquire even a superficial acquaintance with the best writings of our authors of this century; so let us not detract from...
Although the majority of us are very likely to undervalue the worth of discussion, which has no immediate result, yet possibly some believe too strongly in the efficacy of talk as talk. Without doubt every member of the committee has much clearer motives in the subject discussed, than he had before. Those who have ever tried to argue over any question cannot deny that debate or discussion brings out and defines their own ideas most marvellously. Undoubtedly, then, the talk has had a very good influence on the committee-men themselves. But as yet the students at large have been...
...when we learn that this whole scheme was hatched at that convivial gathering of last night, that the friend was carefully instructed what objections to make, and by what arguments to back his assertions, we cannot help laughing. The "victorious" candidate has finished reading his thesis and the professors talk more Latin at him, examine him in his "Neberfaecher" (side-studies) and make him the happy possessor of a degree. There upon the whole party, professors as well as students, adjourn at a banquet given by the smiling neophyte in the ranks of profession...
...exchange columns in school and college journals to-day are readable. Editors doubtless find them interesting, at times exciting, but general readers almost never find them so. Here, then, is a real fault, - a fault that has but one cure. Exchange editors should talk not in petty small-talk, as so many of them do, but in a way that will involve some generality, some interest to their readers as well as to themselves. The small-talk should more properly be conducted by private correspondence. But whatever is done, extravagance should be avoided...