Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...glad to publish this morning an extract from an article written concerning Harvard by Mr. Hurlbut. The writer treats the subject of Harvard indifference in its broader sense admirably. In a clear, strong, convincing manner he shows how false is the popular opinion that Harvard men stand off from their fellows and are unwilling to enter heartily into the plans and interests of others. Harvard men can never be justly accused of snobbishness. As Mr. Hurlbut says, nowhere is there a more democratic community than this University. Individual worth probably counts for more at Harvard than at any university...
...this morning before we discuss the subject. Our editorial of yesterday was written with all sincerity in the interest of debating, and we are firmly convinced that our position was a just one. We did not take our stand in ignorance of the facts of the case, as the writer of the communication says, but after a careful and thorough investigation of the whole subject. We do not believe that we did the Harvard representatives any injustice, and it could only be so understood by a willful perversion of our statements...
While at Harvard he has been studying philosophy and English. Although a member of English 30 he has not previously taken a prominent part in debates and was not chosen to the Union until after he was made a speaker in the coming debate. He is a writer of considerable ability and is Business Manager of the Monthly...
...central attraction in the April number of the Monthly, out today, is a carefully written and thoughtful analysis of the "Dramas of Herman Sudermann," by Gaillard T. Lapsley. After critically reviewing the principal plays of that author, the writer characterizes Suderman as powerful, though ineffective through diffusion. The coarseness and obsceneness so evident in the plays are excused on the ground that Sudermann, like all Germans, was not so sensitive to this sort of thing as are the English speaking people...
...write good grammar. That at least should be done by the preparatory schools. The committee have now under consideration a plan which should work very well. It is to print fac-similes of the examination papers written by graduates of the leading schools, naming in each case the writer's preparatory school. By this means improvement would be made in two ways: the preparatory schools would be stirred up to doing better work; and evidence would be furnished as to which school developed the best method of teaching English composition. As the school which developed the best method would...