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...College papers please copy, with the addition, "This low, dastardly, ill-bred attack is only a mark of the idiotic brain which invented it. Such vile, underhanded reptilian onslaughts can only have proceeded from a narrow, bigoted, Pharisaical fool." That, we think, is the usual style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIBBONS. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

What is real, what fancy-bred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHENCE? WHITHER? | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...enough to have a medical man of the ordinary type for Professor of Hygiene. Most doctors have been bred in contact with disease, and have no true sympathy for health, and they are usually cramped by the tenets of their own school of therapeutic surmises. Nor is it enough to put over the Gymnasium a man who knows nothing of anatomy and physiology, however good a general gymnast he may be. Such a man may be best fitted to teach how to execute a certain exercise, but never to prescribe what exercise each man needs. A simple teacher of gymnastics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HEMENWAY GYMNASIUM. | 6/13/1879 | See Source »

...last Advocate, in an editorial, makes a personal attack on the instructor in Sophomore Rhetoric. The writer of this piece implies that the instructor is neither "sensible" nor "competent," and is to blame for the ill-bred conduct of some members of his class. The Faculty is recommended to discharge the instructor at the end of the year, and it is suggested that it might be well for the University if he should be dismissed even before that time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...felt no sort of weakness for the "well-bred college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SARCASM OF DESTINY.* | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

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