Word: welled
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...that they might exist, but we think of them merely as the clever creations of George Eliot, - as belonging to fiction, and not to history. Yet we can conscientiously say that the book fulfils the condition which stamps it as an original work, - it deserves to be pondered as well as read...
...have recently heard many: complaints from the members of '74, of the sudden disappearance from the College Library of the books which contained the subject-matter of their themes. It would be well for the favored few to remember, in future, that books of this character are reserved for all, and that their disappearance is attended with great inconvenience to many...
...every class there are twenty men at least well qualified and willing to conduct a paper, nor are the rest at all backward with either their money or their good wishes. There is no disparagement in saying that the Advocate does not cover the whole ground; indeed, it does not pretend to. The perception of these facts has induced the Editors of the Magenta to offer a new paper to their fellow-students. Its general plan is as follows...
...book notices and exchanges will be written with the design to place before our readers only what is likely to interest them. Generalities are seldom read, and therefore will be omitted in these parts of the paper, and in the column devoted to the theatre as well. From time to time we shall review in a more conspicuous place than usual books that treat of education, or otherwise have a relation to college life...
...every one but themselves almost worthless; besides, it is hard to find more than half a dozen interested in the same subject at once. It appears to us quite out of the question to speak to the half-dozen and neglect the hundreds. Let those who think differently consider well this line from Byron, that served as the motto of one of our predecessors...