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THE remark has often been made, that many graduates of Harvard, despite the instruction in Rhetoric, and the number of required themes and forensics, are unable to write a respectably good letter; meaning, thereby, one that is correct in grammar, spelling, and expression. That this is the case is not...
We may as well take this occasion to renew our thanks to our undergraduate contributors, and to bespeak their support in the future. We have been pleased to notice increasing contributions from Freshmen, many of which, however, the character of the subject or the looseness of expression prevents us from...
The Romance offers us this feature, and is therefore of no little importance in the history of speech. Its study is, so to speak, the A B C of the philologist. It offers a criterion, a test, for other and more difficult studies, and is a living type on which...
WE tremble before the scientific knowledge of the Berkleyan. One of its poets comes out this month with a poem on the Mauvaises Terres, and freely slings in flowing rhythm such terms as "Cenozoic twilight," "sutured skull," and "circumambient walls . . . . with alkaloid surcharged." Now, we can understand such an expression...
5. We find this expression strangely coincident with our own cant phrase, "know a thing or two." Also of. CARLYLE, passim.