Word: writer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...writer says of Harvard's papers, that, though they have been less numerous than Yale's, they indicate (considered as a whole) greater literary ability, and have had greater influence on college opinion. The Harvard Lyceum was the first, founded in 1810, with Edward Everett as one of its editors. After its death the next paper was the Harvard Register, among the editors of which were President Felton, George S. Hillard, and Robert C. Winthrop. In 1830 appeared the Collegian, notable as containing the contributions of Oliver Wendell Holmes, then a student in the Law School. The Collegian was succeeded...
...first is a communication that betrays plainly the writer's class. It is a kindly attempt on the author's part to offer a few hints to the Faculty for which they will doubtless be grateful...
...article on Vassar, a writer in the Yale Courant modestly remarks : "The average Vassarite is healthy-looking, moderately pretty, intellectual, lively, in for a good time, and, to be brief, very like ourselves." We are glad to learn that the average Yale man is pretty, intellectual, and lively...
...doubt that those who read it in the Courant, without knowing it to be merely a reproduction, will think it more remarkable than we did. The Courant speaks of another poem in the Lit. ("A Counterfeit Presentment") as "a work of care and difficulty to the writer, which those only who have attempted this style of verse can appreciate; and naturally unintelligible to any whose ears have been attuned to the jingle of the Mother-Goose School." At the risk of being included among the disciples of "the Mother-Goose School," we confess to having been utterly puzzled...
...WOULD-BE orator of Yale reckoned without his host when he delivered an oration on "John Milton as a Republican" at the Junior exhibition. A writer in the last Record exposes the fact that the oration was judiciously selected from one delivered in 1869 on "John Milton, Jeremy Taylor, and John Locke as Advocates of Liberty," which was found in a back number of the Yale...