Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Journalism is at best a hard profession-if it may be called a profession,-college journalism, even, in the amount of time and work and thought it demands is much more difficult than one generally thinks. The standard of journalism, as illustrated in the average newspaper of this country is low, partly because it lacks well trained and cultivated men and partly because the wretched state of the public mind is not satisfied with anything higher. There is, therefore, a need for improvement in the tone of journalism that we may have more journals in this country to compare favorably...
...Celtic character were the quick eye, the responsive mind and the sensitive soul. They were naturally gifted with a light and airy temper. It made them appreciate the beauties of nature to a wonderful degree, and gave them their exquisite sense of a fine expression of a fine thought. They were the very opposite of he phlegmatic Saxons. These latter proved the conquerors in physical force, but the Celts no less in intellectual life...
...verse called the "Rollicking Fool and the Weeping Maid" is worthy of mention both for its jolly swing and its deep underlying thought. The "Epitaph for a Poet" is also an attractive thing...
...eastern colleges," the article begins, "have often a marked individuality, closely related to that of the institutions themselves. At one extreme among college papers stands the Harvard Monthly. In the selection of its material, both prose and verse, it seems to have two chief aims, - originality in thought and originality of expression. It seeks pre-eminently the new; one rarely finds in it trite phrases and treadbare figures. Its prose articles are often infused with an intense earnestness, and are usually written in a strikingly impressive style...
...same tendency predominates in the verse of the Harvard Advocate; prose articles are of a less serious character. Both papers, however, too often permit the overcrowding of large ideas to produce a strained effect, or obscure the clear sense of the thought. Sometimes the intense degenerates into the absurd, and the bold epithet into mere affection; this is of course, the chief danger in all college papers that aim at marked originality, and yet in these two papers is found some of the best, and nearly all of the strongest poetry written by college students...