Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first half of the hour will be devoted to comment on the life and poetry of Keats; the second half to reading from his verse...
There are occasionally discreditable occurrences in the University world,- childish, unworthy acts committed by students, which are best passed unnoticed. If made the object of public comment and censure they achieve the notoriety which is the chief delight of the offenders and unnecessarily injure the good name of the University. But there is a limit in this as in all things. There are some acts of such a nature that the college community suffers, on on the other hand, if it does not openly condemn and disavow them. Such an act was that to which Dean Briggs's letter refers...
...account of the slight acquaintance which most persons, even most cultivated persons, have with the life and writings of Sir Thomas Browne, Mr. Copeland began his lecture with an unusually full comment upon the life and surroundings of this writer. Browne, although the son of a London merchant, was of gentle descent on both sides of the house. His father's comfortable fortune enabled him to send his son to school at Winchester. He afterward took the Bachelor's Degree at Oxford and as the result of study at Montpelier, Padua, and Leyden received the degree of Doctor of Physic...
...Comment on New Books...
Members of the University are invited to be present and to speak. The principal disputants are criticised in detail, but speakers from the house are exempt from comment...