Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...next Saturday morning the CRIMSON will issue a special Princeton game edition of about 28 pages, containing full information in regard to the rival elevens, their statistics, past scores and a criticism of their respective merits by an expert football critic...
...sketches in prose Mr. Putnam's have vigor of both thought and expression, while Mr. Cabot's have neither. Mr. Davidson's story about the pianola girl is slight, perhaps obvious, to the critic, but certainly not to the "tired College student" and the "tired business man." Mr. Mardigan's letter on military science is forceful and true; it should be read by every man who intends to condemn the Regiment. "The Regiment is gone; unmourned, to be sure, but not unappreciated...
...showed lacked variety and thrust. "Yale will do well to accept the outcome of the contest with proper humility and reserve her inward gratulations for indulgence at some future date," said Lawrence Perry, sporting editor of the New York Evening Post. In further comment on the game this same critic points...
...William W. Ellsworth, who has recently retired from the presidency of the Century Company, has said that the tendency of college education is to make the young man of literary inclinations a critic rather than a creative artist. "I do not think," writes Mr. Ellsworth in an article for the New York Times, "that any one conversant with the situation can say that we have as many writers of real significance today as we had twenty or thirty years ago. And it is this that makes me doubtful as to the value to literature of our enormous machinery of higher...
...whose minds are filled with commercial, non-literary ideas, an appreciation of the great literary literary productions? IT such courses succeed in doing only this, and fail to develop scores of authors, they still do a great and difficult work. Although authors are valued more highly than literary critics, if a college training can mould the average American undergraduate into merely a literary critic, it is unquestionably successful...