Word: criticizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hapgood was formerly editor of Collier's Weekly and also gained reputation as a dramatic critic of the New York Commercial Advertiser and Bookman. As an author his writings include "The Stage in America," "Life of Daniel Webster." "Life of George Washington," and "Industry and Progress...
...This critic has stimulating criticisms to make in regard to the danger of an "academic mind" among professors, and concerning the system of intercollegiate athletics. Most imperative, however, is the need pointed out for an awakening of intellectual enthusiasm. And this cannot be adequately done by our present lecture-ridden system...
...judges will be a dramatic critic of one of the metropolitan dailies, a well-known playwright, and a recognized stage director, the names to be announced in the near future...
This would be distressing indeed, for both the Senator and the University from which he was graduated were it not for the fact that Harvard has always been its worst (or best) critic, and has always esteemed its self-criticism a virtue. Such being the case, the gentleman from New Hampshire has been virtuous to the point of sanctimoniousness, for this is not the first time Harvard has felt his barbed shafts...
...Criticism, however exaggerated, is welcome. It makes men ask, "Is the critic right?" The CRIMSON can hardly dispute Senator Hollis's own testimony that he is a snob for he probably knows best, but it can question the conclusion that some might draw, that the Senator's case is typical and that Harvard makes all men "first class snobs...