Word: writer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...neglect of students to attend the Monday lectures can be explained without reference either to the "effete religion" of the Divinity School or to the Nation. The lectures are not attended by students, because they come at an hour when few can leave Cambridge without neglecting their studies. The writer seems himself to have recognized this reason, as he saw his "genius" on New Year's Day, - a college, though not a public, holiday. The presence of our professors at these lectures has several times been noticed by the public prints: does this look like snubbing Mr. Cook...
...firmly back, and has a trick of meeting his oar. He and Simmons, while strong promising men, are still too green to be fairly criticised. Preston's extraordinary length of limb renders it impossible to discuss his rowing on the same principles with that of the others, and the writer has not had an opportunity to give to him the requisite additional attention...
...writer of that article is correct in his conjecture; because Christians are mentioned, the implication is not intended that the other sects are heathens. Permit an explanation of the distinction which the writer did not clearly see, and of the error into which he hesitatingly, but blindly fell. Without descending to detail, which the encyclopaedia will supply, it is simply necessary to state that "Christians," here used, is the name which one sect in the United States has chosen to assume. Their locality is Vermont, and the Southwest; their doctrines are liberal, and their creed is the Bible; although they...
...LATE writer in one of the College papers gave the results of some desultory readings in the Catalogue, and advised the public in general to spend their leisure moments in dipping into this interesting volume. And really, any one who will take his light reading in this way will find much which is not only instructive, but amusing as well, - some things, indeed, which would make a worthy theme for the Nation's satirical pen, which lately "did up" so well a certain institution in Tennessee. The first occasion for surprise the Catalogue-reader meets is, that, after the Faculty...
...obvious faults such as it is possible to attend to in exercises on which the instructor can bestow as little time as on college themes, the amount of work now required is sufficient. If the instructor could consider each theme carefully, and afterwards criticise it in connection with the writer, the case would be different, since then the field for correction would be practically unlimited. As it is, twelve themes can accomplish the purpose as well as twenty. If, however, some of the work now required of the Juniors could be transferred to the Freshmen, the change would...