Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have on our table a large number of college magazines: the Virginia University Magazine, the Hamilton Literary Monthly, the Bates Student, the Yale Literary Magazine, the Nassau Literary Magazine, the Cornell Review, the Parker Quarterly, and the Lafayette College Journal. The Review is interesting, and well edited. The oration on "The Speeches of Mark Antony and Brutus in Shakespeare" is better suited for delivery; in reading it the style is too interjectional, and, if we may be allowed the expression, too jerky. The article on Wordsworth shows thought, and the reasoning is good, but unfortunately the writer, in quoting...
...Corcoran, of Washington, has given $50,000 to found professorships in History, Literature, and Ethics in the University of Virginia...
...Cumberland, and is the very goal of human perfection. Her little world of literature, the College Pen, makes her a familiar byword from the Canadian Lakes to the tumultuous Gulf of Mexico." "In a few more years our College, we trust, will cope with Bethany or the University of Virginia...
...infer from the tone of an article in the Virginia University Magazine, that the writer has been reading Parton's Aaron Burr. He says, "What Burr actually was is simply told when we pronounce him to be the most unlucky man that ever lived...
...Virginia University Magazine has an article entitled "A Vade-M cum for Lovers" which is quite cleverly done. The author particularly recommends indirect and delicate flattery, and cites the following (!) as an example...