Word: writing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Each of the members of the Senior Class at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., is obliged to write a poem of one hundred lines, and one of the subjects which have been given is "The Bennett-May Duel...
...more than others? Is it because their fathers are expected to control their actions? If so, why then should a Western father be denied the privilege granted to others of controlling the church attendance of his son? If he wishes that his son should attend regularly, can he not write directions to that effect? If he wishes that he should be excused altogether, can he not write that? And if, as a sensible father should, he wishes that his son should use his own discretion in the matter, then again let him write to that purpose. As long...
...must close, and, as I have said, I shall not be able to write to you again. I hope that it has given you as much pleasure to receive my letters as it has given me to write them; and I sincerely hope that you have not found them utterly worthless. One or two friends who have looked over my shoulder while I have been writing have found great fault with me, and have called me worldly and cynical and snobbish. They may be right. Perhaps I am. But I do not think that I am a bad fellow...
...twelve themes can accomplish the purpose as well as twenty. If, however, some of the work now required of the Juniors could be transferred to the Freshmen, the change would be a good one. To find time, amid all the work of the Junior year, to write four forensics and to write and rewrite six themes, is by no means easy, especially when the subjects assigned are of the abstruse nature now coming into fashion. The writing of a few themes in the Freshman year would give instruction which there is little reason for postponingtill the Sophomore year. The Freshmen...
...word more, and I have done. Take an interest in literary matters, and write for the College Pen. Nothing gives so much eclat to a man's entree into society as a little reputation as a scribbler. The Pen is read everywhere, and anything you write will have a large and appreciative audience. Do not, however, let them publish the addresses you deliver before the literary societies. They may be well enough in their place, but entre nous, they smack a little of the Occident. Besides, it is well not to identify one's self with one's companions...