Word: criticizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...names are arranged in the order of the number of votes, except where several received the same number, in which cases the alphabetical order is followed. In the course of a week we shall publish the list of names selected by the readers of the Critic, with which this list may be compared...
...basis of the French Academy is as good as any. As the popular sentiment has recently been taken in England on the subject of English men of letters, the plan is not a new one. Probably more as a matter of curiosity than anything else the Critic has proposed that such a vote be made in this country, and our desire to compare Harvard's choice with that of the body of readers of the country led us to ask the lists to be sent to us. It certainly seems to be a matter that should interest Harvard...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON: -A correspondent of the Critic asks why America should not have an institution similar to the French Academy. Perhaps it would be well to have an American Academy, but should it be made as the Critic's man would have it, similar to the French Academy? By no means...
...proposal to form an American Academy is new, and now, without a chance for fair consideration of the subject, we are called upon to choose the "immortal forty." The correspondent of the Critic seems to be carrying on the enterprise alone. and so far as the present writer knows, has not been questioned as to the form or limits of the proposed Academy. All we know of the plan is that forty living men of letters are required. That America will have an Academy of men of letters in the near future can hardly be doubted. It ought...
...worthy of membership in an American academy, must feel that if such a body is to be chosen by popular vote he should have a voice in the selection. Therefore we call upon our readers to send in lists to us, which we will promptly forward to the Critic. The lists should contain the names of forty American authors who are thought worthy of a place in an American academy. The representatives of all branches of literature should be included-historians, novelists, poets, playwrights, scientific writers, and theologians. The voting is to continue through the month of March...