Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most of our readers probably know, Prof. Laughing has recently published a new book on Political Economy in Appleton's Science Text-Books Series. The author has divided his work into two parts, the first treating of political economy proper; the second applying the principles of the science to the various questions of the day. We have long felt that some such book was needed. Neither Faucet nor Walker possesses the elements of a good textbook. Except to the most devoted, Mill becomes tedious through his many details, besides being antiquated in several points. For the students of Political Economy...
...Holiday Time" is another evidence of the exceptional charm of the author's lines. Take as an example...
...Matthew Arnold Impressed Me," we have a glowing and well-written account of the effect of the English poet's work on a plastic mind. The personality of the author is thrust for ward rather more than propriety or good taste would allow in an article of this kind. Without wishing to be cynical, I find considerable presumption in its spirit. The talents of the writer give promise for a very fair future, but let him delay the publication of his autobiography until the world may fairly be assumed to be more anxious...
...November number of Lippincotts Magazine contains the prize essay, No. 8, "Social Life at Amherst College." The author is R. S. Rounds...
...betting, it will be a public nuisance and ought to be suppressed; and partly from its effects on the team and its playing.' The force and truth of this whole article can hardly be overestimated. With a clear exposition of the facts, nature and method of the game, the author has explained away all of the most important objection to it. We think that our American college football game has successfully passed the unnecessary and undeserving crisis to which it has been unnaturally forced by the misrepresentations due partly to the other unasignable causes. The game demands many manly qualities...