Word: writer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last Advocate, in an editorial, makes a personal attack on the instructor in Sophomore Rhetoric. The writer of this piece implies that the instructor is neither "sensible" nor "competent," and is to blame for the ill-bred conduct of some members of his class. The Faculty is recommended to discharge the instructor at the end of the year, and it is suggested that it might be well for the University if he should be dismissed even before that time...
...reads this piece can fail to conclude that the writer has a personal grievance. In his indignation he has, I think, forgotten the facts; for he implies that the rhetoric "class occupies itself in the recitation-room with stamping and clapping." There has been no clapping...
...might suppose that the writer of the attack tried to show by his own style what a failure the rhetoric instruction had been. We must grant, I fear, that it has been a complete failure in his case...
...writer (or perhaps writers) of the article in your recent issue, entitled "A Progressive Age," satirized, as far as he was able, pretty much everything in a rather bitter way. He ended up by favoring us with his views on the Philosophical Society that has been started by some who elect that branch of study. He evidently laughs at the idea of it, as he appeared to do at that of all societies and clubs of which he is not a member; for instance, the Art Club, the Telephone Society, and perhaps others could be mentioned...
...writer makes no reference to the "wine-clubs" which, until within a few years, were very popular at both the universities. He thinks there is much more drunkenness and licentiousness at Cambridge and Oxford than among an equal number of American students...