Word: writer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have received a very seasonable article on the advantages of anticipating some work of the Sophomore year. By a moderate amount of study in September, the writer says, one or more of the required studies can be passed respectably, and the time thus freed used very profitably in many ways. For a working man these hours can be spent in critical study of a favorite elective, or on literature at large. The lamentable ignorance of a Freshman, - quite a high scholar in general reading, by the way - is cited, who readily believed that "the great Warren Hastings impeachment was going...
...esteem Latin, not for the sake of speaking or writing it, but in order to enjoy the beauties of the Latin authors; I admire the Greek, because, most certainly, there is no more perfect language; because in no language is there a greater poet than Homer, a more elegant writer than Plato, a more skilful dramatist than Sophocles, or a grander orator than Demosthenes. But in obliging every Frenchman who wishes an education to read Plato or Demosthenes lies the absurdity of the system. What I deprecate is, not that Latin and Greek are taught, but that this should...
...University Review, of Wooster, O., is the next paper that attempts to raise its moral reputation by a "goody" attack upon tobacco; the chief argument against its use being the startling and brilliant discovery that it is a "filthy weed." The writer seems to think that if he throws enough mud, some will surely stick; and so, Swinburne-like, wallows in a mire of coarse invective. Confessing that we do not see anything inherently nasty in the smoke of an aromatic herb, whatever may be the mental effects, we give a few selections as samples of the style of argument...
...writer then turns his attention to the Tripos. Although he says that the men "capable of the most prolonged and severe intellectual labor are those who have distinguished themselves at the Universities," yet he doubts the advisability of forcing young men to devote three years to one single branch of study, as is done at Cambridge; for " it cannot be denied that in such cases the development is strangely one-sided," and "the objectionable tendency of excessive athletic competition is of the same kind." He goes on to say that, although he does not believe there is any physical injury...
...into an imbroglio of a most disgraceful character. The first blow was struck by the Record, in a four-page editorial of immoderate tone, charging the Courant with not fairly representing the College, and with having failed to perform the pledges given at its start. The spleen of the writer, however, is evidently directed against a particular individual, and finds vent in numerous villifying and offensive personalities. In the same issue a would-be humorous article contains several coarse and vulgar jokes at the expense of the Courant board. Thus far our sympathy is with the Courant, but, unfortunately...