Word: towards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...editors refuse to permit a letter from an anonymous correspondent; in the second place, they do not like the idea of having a correspondent; in the third place, they say that not even a knowledge of his name would justify them in printing his first letter; but finally soften toward him, and remark that "possibly his second may be of a more satisfactory nature. If so, it will avail nothing without his name...
MUCH attention has been called, during the past eight or ten months, on the part of the newspapers, to the changes in agitation at Harvard. Some have censured, some approved, the liberality of the University Officers in taking such bold steps toward their universally accorded aim, a University system similar to Oxford or Cambridge...
This is an initiatory step in the right direction, and a similar frankness in all boating transactions would do much toward rooting out those dishonest trickeries which are beginning to make their appearance...
...interest his "Monarch of Mincing Lane" and the "Phaeton." Charles Warren Stoddard contributes a powerful piece of writing entitled "In the Cradle of the Deep." "Probationer Leonhard" is concluded. The criticism of Miss Neilson in the Monthly Gossip seems to us a very fair one, and the other work toward the end of the volume is good. "The Hermit's Vigil," by Margaret J. Preston, is superior to the ordinary magazine poem, but we cannot help suggesting that the lady gains nothing by the introduction of an obsolete and uncommon vocabulary: we would cite, in illustration of our meaning...
...thinks our existence was rumored as a probable event in the issue of the Advocate next preceding our first number. It hints also its belief - which is a very natural one, and therefore excusable - that our paper is the offspring of a pique on the part of the Sophomores toward the Advocate...