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...PEABODY will shortly issue a treatise on Moral Philosophy. It is expected that the class of '77 will study it in place of that antiquated book, Champlin's Ethics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...friends and his class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MARKING SYSTEM. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...their plodding contemporaries, for commonplace and awkward expressions, and general lack of brilliancy. Though this criticism is to a large extent just, there is one matter in which our great metropolitan journals need to look to themselves. It is indeed a fault which is exceedingly prevalent in the highest class of our newspapers. I refer to the continual use of certain words and phrases, perhaps rather expressive originally, but which have been fairly worn out by indiscriminate and excessive use on all possible occasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITERARY FORMULAE. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...class of these words sprang into an immense use as a consequence of the Chicago fire, and have retained their place in the journalist's dialect ever since. Doubtless the man who invented the expression "Fire-Fiend" thought he had done a good thing in the way of personification, and the first six or seven editorials on the great fire were perhaps strengthened by the use of that bold figure. At any rate, its popularity was insured by the indorsement thus received. The "Phoenix" had also manifested himself to a few hopeful minds at this time, and these two some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITERARY FORMULAE. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...first-class newspaper, with all the modern improvements, will also have a blank for fashionable weddings, just as convenient in its way as the marriage service, and with little but names to be supplied. Here different papers vary a little from each other; but the form in use by one of our prominent journals will serve very well as an example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITERARY FORMULAE. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »