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...have had a humorous paper, a light-almost dilettantic-paper, and a newspaper; and the change in the character of our periodicals does not seem to have proved beneficial to the literary training of contributors. The contributor to the magazine was put upon his metal to write the best essay or criticism in his power. It was in work of this kind that such men as Edward Everett, Cornelius C. Felton, J. O. Sargeaut, James Russell Lowell, Rufus King. James Freeman Clark, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others were trained...
...Smith, '85, read his prize dissertation on the "Political and Economic Results of the Seven Years' War," before an appreciative audience in Sever 11 last evening. The essay was the fruit of careful study, and showed great familiarity with the subject. It was very well received, and deserved a much larger audience...
Persons have urged that the work of our Literary Supplement would be done much more thoroughly and successfully by a monthly literary magazine, like the Yale Lit and the Nassan Lit. In one way, these persons are quite right. The essays would be presented in a more attractive, permanent form, the proof could be read more carefully, and the printing could be of a better quality of work than we can afford to pay for in a supplement that we give to our subscribers. There is, however, a very strong argument in favor of our Supplement. Our paper...
...remember once reading, during the evening, an essay of several pages length, and, on going to bed, repeating it word for word, from beginning to end. De Quincey immortalized himself by his wonderful visions. There is that remarkable work of Cicero's on the vision of Scipio, a work that I have often thought must have suggested to Richter the idea embodied in his well-known Dream of The Universe. Bunyan is continually saying, "Now I saw in my dream." And thus a thousand and one instances might be cited, in which, merely as a flight of the imagination...
This was an admirable period, and an admirable place for me to lay aside my pen. But my conscience, or a dxmon, or a vision, or something bids me write on. For to tell the truth, ever since I wrote the first paragraph of this desultory essay, I have been seeking to find a place to insert a portion of a dream I had a few nights ago. It may be wearisome, but I am bent on making it public. "The prophet that bath a dream let him tell it," says Jeremiah. You, my kind but tired reader, I advise...