Word: writer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...becomes necessary to say once more that we do not publish communications sent to us anonymously. This week two poems and one or two contributions have been sent in unaccompanied by the names of their writers, and consequently are not published. There are certain things that every paper must insist upon: one is, that articles shall be written only on one side of the paper; and another, that the writer's name shall in every case be known to the Editors. Will those who favor us with communications please bear these facts in mind...
...article in the Cornell Review attempts to draw a comparison between "Aurora Leigh" and "Pendennis." The title of the article is "Aurora Leigh as the Metrical and Feminine Complement to Thackeray's Pendennis." We are obliged to acknowledge that the writer of the piece has a more vivid imagination than we can pretend to. The comparison is ingenious, but the case is not made out. Both stories follow out the development of a principal character, as many other novels and poems do. Beyond this we fail to see any great similarity...
...which did n't come from the Nation. I don't know anything about the great questions of philosophy. What is culture to me? I spend my time in playing cards for beer, and lately General Schenck has almost become my patron saint. 'Fine clothes and cigarette outside,' the writer in the Advocate says. There is one thing in my favor; I am not open to the fine-clothes charge, - though for a very good reason. But then I have smoked enough cigarettes to counterbalance that. I must reform. I will begin immediately." And I laid out plans for extensive...
...that it speaks well for the choir, which stands to-day the only exponent of refined musical taste in the College. The writer in the Advocate advises Professor Paine to petition the Faculty for a few hundred dollars to hire a decent quartette. Perhaps it would be well for the writer to get some of Professor Paine's ideas on the subject...
...energy and capacity for work, is "liberal." To make study the business of our college lives, and to believe that industry is an admirable quality, is at once to degrade ourselves to the level of students at the smaller colleges. "To work," in the language of a recent writer in the Crimson, "is ungentlemanly...