Word: writer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tour of the Foot-ball Team has called forth a very sensible suggestion which will be found under the head of Correspondence. The writer referred to asks why those who go to New York and to other places at vacation do not, by reason of their numbers, obtain reduced rates from the railroads. It seems to us that this is a proposal both seasonable and practicable. In a few weeks the annual Thanksgiving migration will begin, and many, we are sure, would be glad to avail themselves of excursion tickets such as those lately used by the Fifteen. If such...
...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 the verses beginning...
...uplifted" instead of "unuplifted," which spoils not only Wordsworth's meaning and metre, but the argument to illustrate which the writer uses the lines. The Yale Lit. is really very interesting; we must not judge of Yale from the Courant and Record. On the whole, college magazines are not nearly so objectionable as college papers...
...suggest is that the College can, at a small expense, relieve those who suffer from draughts and those who suffer from close air, by introducing an invention which was used in some of the schools of Boston a few years ago (and is still, for all that the writer knows to the contrary), consisting of a board which fits into the window-frame, and is furnished with a large pipe covered with a wire netting through which the draught of air is regulated by a damper. If a supply of these were put into University, the number of students kept...
...subsequent proceedings between Mr. Winsor and the city authorities, wherein efforts were made to retain him, it is unnecessary here to speak, as the dailies have told the whole story time and time again. Whether Mr. Winsor was to be preferred to another great scholar and brilliant writer, for some time past closely connected with the Library, whatever our views on the subject, we will not attempt to discuss...