Word: writings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dabble much in literature; our effusions are accepted and refused by the college papers, refused and accepted by the magazines and comic papers, from the "Atlantic Monthly" to "Tid Bits", but to almost every litterateur, his aim is to write something acceptable for the moment; to grapple earnestly with literature never occurs to him. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and we would recommend to every nascent Victor Hugo - we are all such, of course - that instead of choosing topics that are easy to treat and hard to criticise - "Moonrise at Sea", "The Character...
...English. Meeting opposition on every side, in the preparatory schools, as well as among the students and in the faculty, he kept on. In spite of apathy or difference of opinion among his associates he still worked for his department. Everywhere he went he met the statement, 'I write well enough, and I was never taught English.' This hostility, or at best indifference, had to be overcome. Finally he drew to himself the young and enthusiastic supporters, with whom he has carried on the reform until the English department is accounted one of the best in the college...
...write a complete history of an act of Congress was, said Dr. Hart, impossible; he should attempt only to trace the outward life of the River and Harbor Bill of 1887, as an illustration of the methods of Congress and of financial legislation...
...week! Ladies or gentlemen desiring pleasant profitable employment write at once. We want you to handle an article of domestic use that recommends itself to every one at sight. Simple as flour. Sells like hot cakes. Profits 300 per cent. Families wishing to practice economy should for their own benefit write for particulars. Used every day the year round in every household. Price within reach of all. Circulars fee. Agents receive sample free. Address, Domestic Manufacturing Company Marion, Ohio...
...week! Ladies or gentlemen desiring pleasant profitable employment write at once. We want you to handle an article of domestic use that recommends itself to every one at sight. Simple as flour. Sells like hot cakes. Profits 300 per cent. Families wishing to practice economy should for their own benefit write for particulars. Used every day the year round in every household. Price within reach of all Circulars free. Agents receive sample free. Address, Domestic Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio...