Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students who have taken or expect to take courses in fine arts under Mr. Chas H. Moore, would do well to call in at King's bookstore to see the new portfolio ready this morning. Its title-page reads...
...award the palm of superiority to any one, when all are so excellent. But the whole system of such undergraduate "magazining" seems to us radically wrong, and therefore are we no impartial judge. The Review publishes more good poetry; the Yale Lit. excels in literary criticism, Notabilia, and Portfolio; the Nassau inclines both to philosophy and to legendary matter of a ghostly sort, induced, as the Acta would say, by the atmosphere. But one reads these productions with a sense of dissatisfaction. Articles on weighty subjects, when published in a college paper, are compelled, for very lack of room...
...Yale Lit. is good, but more amusing in such light articles as the "Teatotum Club," or the "Portfolio" department, than in heavier things...
...Contributors' Club. Reading its graceful articles is the next best thing to talking with the editors themselves upon the subjects in which they are most interested. The Miscellany's exchange notes are what exchange notes should be, both brilliant and just. The Yale Lit., too, excels in its "Portfolio." It is a very gentlemanly paper, with an easy air that is rather humorous than witty. Its dress is excellent. The Nassau Lit. has the rare power of producing literary articles of real merit upon interesting subjects. The editorials are not dignified enough for so dignified a paper. There...