Word: essays
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...provisional assignment of Commencement parts is as follows: Orations, Hale, Swayze, Crawford; Dissertations, Macfarlane, Case, Andrews, Hills, Hyde; Disquisitions, Patten, Thayer, R. W. Ellis, Faunce, Poor, Sylvester, Schofield, Dalzell, G. M. Burrill, Newhall, Porter, F. Brewster, Atherton, Almy, Lawrence, J. A. Brown, Keyes, Madden, H. Butler, W. E. Smith; Essay, Taussig...
...knowledge of books is as extensive as his knowledge of men. Mention a novel, an essay, or a poem, and he will tell you he found it rather dull; is surprised that you can wade through it. If you have read the book yourself you will discover, with the aid of a few questions, that he has never read anything in the book but the title. The trouble is, we are apt to be gulled by these impostors, and never think of putting them to a test. They are caught, however, in their own nets sometimes. The story...
...Oberlin Review is principally taken up with two four-column articles on "Conscience in History" and "Coleridge and Modern Thought." We confess that we were unable to finish either of them. A prize essay, however, is promised for next time, and we look forward to this with great interest...
...Round Table has a prize essay, nearly eight columns in length, on "Individuality and Individualism." We did not have courage enough to get further than the title. It is in a state of great excitement over a coming lecture by the Rev. Joseph Cook, and urges its readers to show their "appreciation of his unexcelled talent" by a large attendance...
...subject for the next Senior Forensic, 1st division, Is ridicule a test of truth? References : Shaftesbury's "Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humor"; Akenside's "Pleasures of the Imagination," note on 3d Book; Bentham's "Works," Vol. 11. pp. 114, 360. Specimens of ridicule employed argumentatively : many of Swift's Works, The Spectator passim, British Essayists, Petroleum V. Nasby's Letters. Time, second Monday in May. 2d division : Are we justified in pursuing sports which have for their aim or issue the suffering and death of the lower animals? References : Works of Soame Jenyns...