Word: criticizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Edmund Gosse in a recent interview with a reporter of the Critic speaks as follows about his impressions of Harvard...
...series on the same subject given last winter. Instead of one lecture from Mr. Gosse, secured by the enterprise of this Society, if the university were able to undertake such matters, it might supplement its regular instruction in English literature by a more extended course by the same distinguished critic and scholar. Or again, Mathew Arnold, when he makes his proposed second visit to America, could be secured to give a course of lectures in the same field before the university. Such lectures would be strictly academic, and would be in the proper line of university work...
...Critic's "Forty Immortals" writes as follows to the Literary World: There are certainly some curious features about the Critic's list of forty American Immortals. One of these is the fact that its pyramid rests, unlike those of Egypt, upon the apex. Mr. Francis Parkman certainly ranks very near the head of our living authors, whatever may be his sins in the way of political pessimism, yet he stands at the very bottom of the Critic's list. It moreover appears that he would not have occupied even this humble position but for the fact that two or three...
Seven Yale men are in the Critic's list of academicians...
Looking carefully over the two lists we find that 26 of our names were also on the Critic's, and that those where we differ compare favorably with the critic's men. Harvard is well represented, her graduates being many and occupying prominent places...