Word: writing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fresh and ingenuous youth, for whose benefit I could pour forth my reserved stores of wisdom. But after I had told him about fifty times how old I was, how large my allowance was, etc., it began to grow monotonous. I said, "Look here, old fellow! I'll just write down all those things, such as how old I am, how much money my father has, how many sisters I have, how old they are, etc., and then you can nail it up on your door so that you need not bother yourself to come in here when you want...
DEAR SIR, - The battered mediaeval walls of this historic city would prompt me to write of bygone internecine struggles, rather than of the peaceful athletic contests of modern times, were my interest in those contests one jot less keen. Having lived for many years at a distance from the scenes of action, should any misstatement offend my readers, I apologize beforehand, attributing it to my precarious sources of information. However, I have to deal with principles rather than facts...
...library had fifteen thousand volumes, and was then "unquestionably the best in the United States." "Here the leaning is towards the languages, in Yale College towards the arts and sciences," President Dwight says; but he regrets that even here the admission requirements in Latin ("to speak true Latin and write it in verse as well as prose") were being "continually lowered by gradual concessions." The buildings then were "four colleges, a chapel, and a house, originally a private dwelling, now called College House." Of the arrangement of the college edifices he speaks more temperately than certain art professors who have...
...taken up our pen with the intention of addressing some timely remarks to the Sophomores and Freshmen on the propriety of their spending their spare hours in writing for the Crimson, instead of wasting their time over baseball, rowing, etc., which, by the way, are all very well, as far as they furnish subjects for us to write on. But it has occurred to us that there was an able editorial on this subject in the Crimson for September 30, 1875, to which we refer members of the two lower classes...
...anxious about the reputation of our poets. The Yale Courant quotes a few lines from the Oberlin Review, and then says: "Yet even this gem will have to yield the palm to 'A Comparison,' by A. D. F., in the Amherst Student." If A. D. F. can write a few more such morceaux the Harvard poets will have to look after their laurels. This morceau we give in full...