Word: write
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...well arranged. Its low price is probably due to the numerous advertisements it contains. The amount of labor and time spent in getting up the book must have been considerable, and it shows that the author has an unusual amount of business ability. It is no small undertaking to write a handbook of a city like Boston, and the author is to be congratulated on his enterprise in undertaking the task and his success in accomplishing...
...Study of Music," such as one might find in almost any other of our exchanges, and equally stale, flat, and unprofitable; but with one pleasing difference, that none of them is over a column and a half in length. When platitudes are the order of the day, those who write them most briefly deserve most credit and most thanks. In the Bowdoin Orient we find an essay of four columns in length on Emerson, which tells us nothing new, and suggests as little. We should have more patience with it, were it cut down, as it easily might...
What a desolate scene! I think I could write some verses on it that would equal that dreadful howl of grief I read somewhere the other day. If I can crawl to the table, I'll get it. Here it is, - let's see how it goes. No author given, - but it's called A Wail, - yes, "very like a whale," as the Swan of Avon...
...severe criticism that appeared in the last Advocate upon the subjects given out for the next Junior Forensics. It hardly seems probable that a teacher who has had so much experience in this matter should assign subjects wholly beyond the capacity of his class, or should expect them to write "North American Review articles." The criticism not only is a reflection upon him, but is not sustained by an examination of the subjects. That they are subjects which cannot be written upon without some knowledge and thought is evident, but that this should be urged as an objection against them...
...some of the articles: "An Ancient and Modern Battle as Typical of the Old and the New Civilization," "Humanity in Poetry," "True Partisanship," "A Criticism on the Representative Orators of the American Bar." How long will it be before the average college student finds out that he cannot write much that is worth reading on such subjects? He evidently has not found...