Word: themes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Christmas number of the College Chronicle rejoices in the glory of a new cover; also in Christmas stories, and an editorial on the same theme to the amount of five pages and more. This editorial gets in everything from the family joy on the return of the prodigal to "trimming the church" and plum-pudding; but, alas! ends as follows...
...members of English 5 are to write a story for a child four years old, to be handed in (i. e. the theme) next Friday...
...subjects for the next Junior theme are as follows...
...exercises began with a waltz played by a band of stringed instruments, prayer by the class-chaplain followed, and then the orator was introduced. His theme was the connection between education and agriculture, and he proved conclusively, to himself at least, that the prosperity of a country depends upon the farmers, and that the cultivation of the soil ought to go hand in hand with the cultivation of the mind. He did not close without censuring the corruption of the times. The children of the so-called old families, he said, inherit more vices than virtues, and he wished...
...suggestion of the Visiting Committee that themes should be required of Seniors and Freshmen as well as of Sophomores and Juniors is one which we sincerely hope will not be acted on. In order to eradicate the more obvious faults such as it is possible to attend to in exercises on which the instructor can bestow as little time as on college themes, the amount of work now required is sufficient. If the instructor could consider each theme carefully, and afterwards criticise it in connection with the writer, the case would be different, since then the field for correction would...