Word: writing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...that is in making themselves felt through the college press. And this applies to the class as a whole, and not to those few who in their own or partial friends' opinion have literary ability. On such as have, perhaps, never entertained the thought of their ability to write, we would enjoin the advisability of trying; for the main requisite is to have something to say, and surely among so large a number it cannot be but there are ideas and information for which the college at large would be the better. The success of the college press should...
...begins, "Nature upon her tablet has written that silvery drops of rain must come from clouds, black and portentous," etc. The reader would here naturally expect some explanation, - what is the tablet? when was it? where was it? why and how did nature write? etc., - but no explanation is given. The writer hurries on, discovers that day is followed by night, stands beside the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, inspects the "remnant of Babylon," has a word for the Mede, another for the Persian, gets himself surrounded by the "tottering walls of the Coliseum," "hears" them crumble, notes, in passing...
...that culture is becoming really the ideal for which to work, this would matter little; but as it is, we must try to keep the ideal as high as possible, and this will not be done by describing culture as reading a certain amount and learning to write fairly. True culture is nothing less than the development of every part of our nature, and in leading the intellectual life our studies may be made of as much benefit as reading, provided only that we look at them, not by themselves, but only as a part of a training that will...
...public press on questions of "morals and politics, law and government." "The rudiments of an education such a class should be taught at this University." The foundation of learning being well laid, it may be added that "the chief instrument to gain complete success must be the power to write with knowledge, with clearness, and with force...
...From this fact we are tempted to believe that we have succeeded, to a degree, in carrying out the plan for the paper's conduct laid down in the first number. Our contributors, although few in number as compared with the men in college who can and ought to write, have been extremely obliging and constant. We hope that more men will write for us next year. In regard to news, we have often found it a difficult task to give a sufficient amount of interesting matter without descending to gossip and personalities, which we know our readers...