Word: true
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...paper then presented is, I think, open to criticism as involving distinctions too minute to be of any moment, but the portion relating to Composition calls for especial comment Composition is not embraced in the course, and its presence on the examination-paper caused very great surprise. True, the sentences given were translations from the author read, but their selection was purely arbitrary, and to expect one to load the memory with even a quarter of the innumerable idiomatic constructions in Plautus were an evident absurdity. Is it not, too, a somewhat novel idea that a thorough understanding...
...planet, my true-love...
...newspapers. Two articles have lately appeared, one in the Springfield Republican and one in the Boston Herald, which repeat the time-worn story of Harvard barbarity and excess. Such reports are eagerly seized upon by many persons in the community, and do the University irremediable harm. It is true that there are evils at Harvard, and it is also true that there are evils in the world outside. Such evils as we have here we had better face boldly; there is nothing gained by keeping them out of sight. But it is a crime to parade them before the public...
...report in reference to the misfortune of Mr. Leister of the class of '80 is incorrect, and we sincerely regret that his name appeared in the last Crimson. The report was wide-spread in the College at the time, and we had every reason to suppose that it was true. Our only object in publishing it was to bring forcibly before the minds of hard students the danger of over-work; and though we are happy to learn that the rumor in question is false, the principle remains the same...
...youthful poems Philip speaks of this instructor in terms of great respect. Although the lines are hardly worthy the author of "The Defence of Poetry," they display a charming modesty, and show gleams of true poetic fire. They are as follows...