Word: writer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...article being in "bad taste" and "snobbish," these expressions are wholly out of place, and are merely an indication of the bad-tempered manner in which the writer has taken my remarks. My opinions may be wrong, but they certainly were not expressed in a manner to justify such criticism. We now find the following untrue sentence: "The writer compares the character of our rooms with those at Yale and Tufts in a spirit that is as insulting to them as it is disgraceful to himself...
...CROWNINSHIELD.[The writer of the above seems to be laboring under a misapprehension. The crew are now using the English system in so far as their knowledge of that system and the climate of this country will allow...
Orono preserves the pleasing custom of smoking the pipe of peace. After this ceremony was over the whole class of thirty-two shook hands. It was one of the most senseless performances the writer ever witnessed; the class standing in line and shaking hands with No. 1, No. 2, and so on in order until the end of the game; but it was a fitting close for such a remarkable Class...
RATHER an excited article appeared in the Advocate of February 16 regarding the prices we pay for our rooms in Cambridge. It seems hardly likely that, if the writer of that article had reflected calmly on the subject, he would have arrived at the extreme conclusions to which the Advocate has given publicity. There are rooms in Cambridge of all sizes, positions, and prices, - a variety, we should have supposed, sufficient to please the most fastidious. If the price of a room is three hundred dollars, and an applicant finds it exorbitant, the College kindly offers him a pleasant...
...Stoughton, - are let at very low prices. Thus it is certain that every student can get a good room here in proportion to his means; but those who are willing only to pay $70 cannot expect as good accommodations as those who pay $300. There is a class of writers for the College papers who seize upon some imaginary wrong of this description with avidity, as it affords them a subject upon which to write. These little attempts are harmless enough when carefully pruned by the editorial shears, but in this case the feelings of the writer have evidently...