Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Christians, and Catholics all have churches here"; and the comment is added...
...desire to protest against the custom of marking up the Library books. I very seldom take out a book but I find it defaced by some would-be commentator; such highly aesthetic notes as "Good," "Admirable," "This is fine," are met on almost every page. The only historical precedent for such action I can think of is the appropriation by the schoolmen of the manuscripts of the classical authors for their own worthless scribblings. But then the schoolmen lived at a time when parchment was scarce and dear; now, when stationery is so cheap, the impropriety of any such mediaeval...
...follows: I. General Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis; II. Quantitative Chemical Analysis; III. Determinative Mineralogy and Crystallography; IV. Phaenogamic Botany; V. Cryptogamic Botany; VI. Geology. For each of these the fee is $25, except VI., which, conducted with such success last year, is too well known to need any comment. Each course is to last six weeks; thus leaving six weeks to the student for a vacation of pure idleness, if he prefers. The importance of these courses cannot be overestimated, while their cheapness, considering their value, will form an attraction to many; seventy-five or a hundred dollars probably covering...
...which involves Oriental notions of property in women, and at the same time a highly objectionable tendency to free love. We are next informed that "the maiden's glance invites advance," and after being suffered to advance, we are requested to "drink bliss like sparkling wine," - sentences upon which comment is needless. And, finally, the veracity of all ladies is impugned in the lines...
...more than is necessary, he often finds, when he has no longer any means of redress. Their labors ended the committee make a report, stating, probably, that they are still in debt, and proceeding to levy an assessment which is, or is not, paid without one word of public comment on the manner in which the committee have performed their duties. The habit thus formed he continues through College, arguing that it would be impossible to influence his class, and therefore joining in the number, large or small he does not know, of those who are afraid to oppose what...