Word: though
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...read? Is there nothing in American literature that should command his attention? Is it your purpose to teach him that Hawthorne, Irving, Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Emerson and Lowell are of minor consequence in comparison with Goldsmith and Scott? Shakespeare is a matter of course, and Milton ought to be, though your examination papers do not indicate that you so regard him; but, after those two, is there any English writer with whose works it is more important for an American boy to be familiar than it is for him to know something of the great literature in which...
...CRIMSON:- In connection with the much-vexed question of Memorial Hall fare, I should like to bring to general notice an interesting and instructive fact. Recently I was told by a friend that the place where he was boarding was being run on the same plan as Memorial Hall, though of course on an infinitesimal scale. A freshman had started the enterprise. He had secured rooms on Bow street; engaged table-ware, etc., and hired a cook and a waitress. He then issued notices and got up a table of twenty-four men (chiefly Law School men who had left...
...resigned the post in 1837. He was elected professor of botany in the new University of Michigan, but he declined the chair and accepted in 1842 the Fisher professorship of natural history at Harvard, where he remained until 1873, when he retired from the active duties of his office, though he still retained the charge of the herbarium. Dr. Gray's scientific work began at a time when the old artificial systems of botany were giving way to the natural system, and with Dr. Torrey, he was among the first to attempt the classification of species on the natural basis...
...such a change. As long as much money can be made by printing sensational and filthy matter people will be found who will print it and spread it about. But there is a process of action and interaction. A newspaper can have a great effect on its readers, even though at bottom it is likely to follow rather than lead their tastes. The tone of the press can be improved if newspaper men can be brought to bear in mind that they may exert a great influence on the tastes and minds of their readers, and that the manner...
...Turning Point" is a fairly good story, though one might wish that a theme that has been so well worn in the fiction of the modern and the ancient world and which our college papers have hitherto avoided as though by a better instinct, would be left to the treatment of master hands only. They might possibly be expected to show this episode in a new light. The melodramatic dens ex machina in the shape of a "golden star" is a bit wearying...