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...University would be likely to obtain better editors by a similar system than by the one now in practice. In reply, we would state that, as it seems to us, a class election would be open to serious objections. A man's ability as a writer cannot be correctly judged from a few articles, which are all that the class have for the basis of their opinion. His unsuccessful articles are known to the editors alone; his writing may be uneven; one piece may be good and make a reputation for its author, and then half a dozen go deservedly...
...silent man is supposed to live out his beautiful thoughts, to carry his poetry into his daily life, and make that, what others make their speeches and writings, ideally noble and beautiful. The outflow cannot exceed the supply; and if there is only so much of good in each man, if this runs away in the form of fine words, there is none left for home consumption, and vice versa. Indeed, the surest way to gain the respect and esteem of the world, and to keep it, is to say nothing, to express our wisdom, like...
...most delightfully mingled with our dreams. Vainly will others extol to us the virtues of great draughts of the freshest, clearest hours of the day; these we, too, taste and delicately enjoy with a relish that the votaries of, even anticipating the monarch and definer of the day, cannot appreciate or imagine...
Even if it were productive of the best health and the most devotional feeling to have to get up early and hear the prayers of another, or watch them from beyond hearing distance, those who compel us to do such things cannot imagine how great an incentive to resignation it would be if a few more of them would keep us company. Misery loves company, and it is a great aggravation to our discomfort that we are never permitted to see tutor or professor with hair unkempt and coat buttoned up around his throat. Men who would show such...
...subject is boldly and originally treated. We recognize the right of literary ladies and gentlemen, founded on custom, to paint us very black indeed; but we are used to being saved at the eleventh hour, and demand it as a right. We cannot, therefore, commend this poem for its sentiment, although the execution is eminently artistic...