Word: authority
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Because they want to be the best. He-bray-ists in the country. Our Biblical editor admires the joke and dislikes to spoil it, but he must display his knowledge, and inform the author that it was n't that kind of ass at all. Vide Numbers xxii...
...example only is cited] "was refused admission to the Sophomore class at Yale for deficiency of preparation. He went directly to Harvard College, offered himself as a candidate for the Junior class there, and was admitted." There is more truth, perhaps, in the first of these quotations than the author supposes. For how would he explain the notorious fact that nearly every year many candidates for admission to the Freshman class at Harvard who are rejected, apply to Yale, pass their examinations, and are at once admitted...
...inference, evidently intended to be drawn, that all are of a similar nature, what kind of a set of examination papers would the writer in the Courant leave us to conclude are presented to candidates for admission to that beloved institution for which he is a champion? Undoubtedly the author has paid more attention to the sarcastic style in which his piece was written than to a fair and comprehensive discussion of his subject...
Under the circumstances, we cannot blame the author for reverencing his mother, especially when she is arrayed in her jacket which is mended where it is torn; but if he would spend the time, in some lucrative employment such as saw-filing, which he wastes in torturing the ear with such - as this, both his mother and the world would doubtless be better...
...article by T. W. Higginson in the Scribner for January, proposing the plan of a Graduate Scholarship, to be open to applicants from every college in America. The Nation of February 20, in its customary tone of ignorant ridicule, throws cold water on the scheme, and severely criticises the author of the article in Scribner. The writer in the Nation grants that "liberally endowed and carefully administered scholarships are among the most efficient attainable means of higher education in our land," but thinks there would be great practical difficulty in finding an organization to properly administer this particular trust...