Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Williams Literary Monthly and the Harvard Monthly are now before us. In looking over the numbers from abroad we are struck with the attempts at depth of thought and at real argument. In many cases the writers have opinions, and show a willingness to express them; in a word they are not afraid of being serious. As a result, the magazines become something more than literary, and please the thought as well as the taste of the reader. But setting them aside and taking up the "Harvard Monthly" we are inclined to think that the name "literary" would...
...Xenephon's march to the sea; he can sketch for you a technical plan of Olympus; he can tell you the exact size of the sail-cloth in which Helen, the divine of women, was wrapped when the lily-like voiced ancients threw one to the other the winged word, as she passed them by; he can tell you who was the grandmother of Apollo; in fine he can tell you almost anything, but he is not a "bold, bad man." What is he, she, or it, then? Well, in the first place he generally "rags something less than...
...student, passing through his course at either of these New England Academies, unless his choice is previously made, seldom hears a word in favor of Princeton. This, we think, is largely due to the fact that Princeton is not represented among the instructors in these institutions. Comparatively few Princeton men take up teaching as a profession. No system of pedagogics is taught in our college, while in New England the profession of teaching takes its place among the other professions of the day, and is given full consideration by each student as he makes his choice. Besides, previously...
...energy that have always characterized their labors in other fields. We will say here that, of course, we do not ourselves aspire to first place; for we wish to avoid the merest possibility of having flung at us the withering and soul-depressing charge, conveyed by that one word, "chestnut...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Allow me to say a word about the way that the English Department has managed the junior themes. The first junior theme was a criticism. Last year the instructor of sophomore rhetoric in his lectures on criticism laid great stress on the necestity of giving an outline of the novel or article which was to be criticised. This fall the instructor who lectured on junior themes again emphasised the need of such an arrangement in a really good criticism. Almost every junior in writing his first theme this year followed this advice and wrote a synopsis...