Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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ROBERT CRECY, Law School."CARMEN" at the Castle Square Theatre is a great triumph and people are being turned away this week. One critic says...
...Boston. He had been a leader in the movement that has for its object the promotion of rationalist ideas in theology, and had contributed largely to various journals and reviews. In 1867 he became the first president of the Free Religious Society. He was for a time art critic for the New York Tribune...
...Critics may object, and do object, that athletic prowess is unduly exalted, and that it involves distortion of facts to rate the best football player, or best oarsman, higher than the best scholar or debater. But the critic is not wholly right in this. There is a disposition in the college world to recognize in the highest degree anything which redounds to the credit of the college. Let a student write something which brings honor to his college, whether in science or literature, and there is no limit to the recognition he receives from his fellows. Let a football player...
...Perhaps it is so. It may be that the critics are right; but I know of no more ignorant critic than a busy man who gets his theology from the newspapers and reviews his Christian ethics from the reading of ecclesiastical controversies, and his knowledge of the work from emotional exhorters, and who never goes to the original sources of Christ and the church itself...
...ROWE and W. L. VAN KLEECK.Best general references: J. B. Warner, in Harvard Grad. Mag., 2: 329 (March, 1894); Forum 13: 461 (June, 1892); C. W. Eliot et al. in Critic, 3: 152-154; C. W. Eliot, Annual Report...