Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annoying impression that they are reading over your shoulder; or they rattle newspapers; or some one comes in and tells one of them a story in plain hearing,-a good story maybe, but not appropriate to the paper; or one of them picks up a blue book after its writer has gone out and reads it and shakes with ill-suppressed mirth thereat. This last is maddening even if it is not your book and you are not supposed to be looking at the reader...
After a short account of the game, the writer passes next to the state of affairs at Yale and the progress made during the fall there. The first games, against Wesleyan and the Crescents, has been discouraging but gradual and steady progress culminated in victory over Princeton in the championship game on Thanksgiving...
...When the writer of the Lampoon editorials speaks of "depraved journalistic freedom which ought to be checked." I wonder if he is thinking of a certain paper which advertises a biweekly issue, although it appears hardly once each month...
...analysis possessed by few and of an ability to make details and accessories contribute to the general tone of the story which gives it, in spite of its melancholy, a strange charm. The story has many points of resemblance with the "Decadence of Arthur Helmer" by the same writer in one of the last year's Advocates. It is fully equal to it, if it is not better...
...beginning of the Christianera, the Greek philosophy had grown to be extremely practical. The school of philosophers taught self-command and discipline. Its aim was personal culture. A writer on that school, Epictetus made a great point of the effect that philosophy produced on a man. The other element of the philosophy, the religious element, was beautifully set forth in the writings of Seneca. His doctrines were that God was a friend and a loving father to all. Even the most miserable of men felt God's munificence. Man was a living sluine of God. This was a very sublime...