Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...minds, and when we would be most likely to forget the claims of an art, which does not aim solely at practical ends, attention is called to the department of fine arts in a way at once pleasing and elevating. Mr. Herkomer enjoys a high reputation as a scholarly critic, and is a man of refined tastes. Anything that he will be led to say cannot fail to interest those who listen to him. College students are slowly arriving at an appreciation of the fine arts and the benefit to be derived from a study of them, and can understand...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - It seems to me that in the criticism on the Harvard Monthly that appeared in yesterdays paper, more especially in the portion relating to Mr. Sanford's story, the reviewer has forgotten some of the first elements of criticism; namely, that a literary work should be regarded as a whole, and that it is unjust to criticise excerpts from a story without the slightest reference to the context, when by so doing he perverts the meaning and general effect of the passage in question. Now the critic takes exception to the hero's "quoting Homer...
Arrangements are making by the Shakspere Club for a series of lectures in Sanders Theatre. Lawrence Barrett, Franklin Sargent, Henry Ward Beecher, and Henry A. Clapp, dramatic critic on the Boston Advertiser, have been invited to speak...
...life was wholly neglected. To criticise the method of study at present pursued by Professor Hill would give rise to a host of suggestions as to the correct way in which a course of study in English literature should be carried on. We do not wish to censure our critic or criticise the ground which he has taken, but in a course which is so given up to independent research and individual work as English VIII, the criticism must be considered as slightly hypercritical. If Byron was a brute, we want to know it just as distinctly as to know...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Considerable comment has been caused by the fact that, out of the half-dozen or more themes in sophomore English, only one has been subjected to the inter-student criticism, which the class was led to expect with every succeeding theme. Have the instructors in this course lost faith in their original plan, or has "ye student critic" got himself into disfavor? It is to be hoped that both have happened, and that the latter especially is the case, for nothing can be more pitiable than some of the expression of jealousy and puerility handed...