Word: criticizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...methods in the pursuit of the study of archaeology are in themselves novel and original, and have evoked much comment from the adherents of the older school. Though the more orthodox scholars of archaeology on the continent take exception to many of Dr. Waldstein's innovations, the fair-minded critic cannot fail to discern the traces of true genius in his doctrines. Though a very young man, the lecturer has attained no mean position in the scientific world, as the distinctions lately conferred upon him fully attest. Sever 11 ought to prove too small for those who wish to hear...
Citizens of Cambridge, lend us your ears! - "A Cambridge correspondent of the Critic actually insinuates that the atmosphere of art in the classic surburb is about as bleak as a Dekota blizzard. The studios are few and the visitors fewer, and the pictures in the magazines, we are told, are about all the Cantabs have to talk about. As for music, this correspondent says the real appreciative lover of music doesn't abound there, and the occasional Symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre are attended only for form's sake. It's lucky for this correspondent that hazing has gone...
...will be seen on perusal, "The Prayer of the Presidents being Washington's New-Year Aspiration," etc., is an unsetarian amplification of the Lord's Prayer, and peculiarly of practical use to every earnest young man and woman in this age and country. The Critic says...
...class and can pick out eight of these men as being able to get along well without aid from the college funds? Let us trust that this omniscient writer himself is not one of these unfortunate high rank men who "almost invariably shun very valuable courses"! This would-be critic is at present unknown, but it is a pity that there should be even one man among us who thinks that he must ape the habits of men more wealthy than himself. Such a man is not likely to be popular among the hundreds of other men who have...
...that none but men who do not teach English have ever solved to their own satisfaction. Loaded down with undergraduate literature, making many mistakes of method in instruction where all methods are as yet experimental, the English Department works on; and feels year by year more gratitude to the critic at once severe and kind who has already made something out of nothing, and who with good health and fair play will make in time a department of which not even "John Donne" need be ashamed...