Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pierce. The book, though made up of fragments as it is, will always be of value and interest to Harvard men. It pictures, as is pictured nowhere else, the different stages of life at our University during the last sixty years, breathing the kindly, gentle spirit of its author, who has always drawn out the good and won the love of all with whom he has come in contact...
...when he lectured on English literature to the University, and consequently this lecture attracted much attention. He took as his subject "Doctor Johnson and Some Old Clubmen of His Time," and followed the history of the Literary Club from the time of its foundation by the famous author and wit down to the present time. Mr. Mitchell's account of the doctor and his friends, Burke, Gibbons, Joshua Reynolds and Boswell, was exhaustive and critical, while his delightful style rendered it a source of enjoyment to the whole audience. It is hoped that he may be induced to lecture here...
...American boy to be familiar than it is for him to know something of the great literature in which our own American life and thought are reflected? The young men who look to you for guidance are Americans; could you not manage to include at least one American author in the list of those from whose works you select the subjects for your entrance examinations in English literature. Is there none in all the list who is worthy of such recognition by a leading American college, or is it the deliberate judgment of Harvard College that acquaintance with American literature...
...complains that the requirements for admission in English "indicate a peculiar narrowness of view on the part of those who made the selections and a curious tendency to run in ruts." This is clearly the opinion of a man who blindly judges from the Exeter or alone. Every English author could not be represented in the requirements for obvious reasons. And it has seemed best to "those who made the selections" to choose authors who are more or less known to begin on. Then, when a boy enters, he is free to choose from a large number of electives...
...scheme proposed was this-that the faculty should allow any club of students who should severally guarantee the club's honor and get a member of the faculty to be their sponsor, to have examinations without a proctor. This scheme, to my great surprise, found no one but its author to defend it. Men said that it would be hard to get many groups of a dozen or more men to go bail for each other's honors in this way; that certain groups of men might form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly...