Word: laterizing
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...motto adopted by its founders, Byron's famous dictum, "I won't philosophize, and I will be read," seems to indicate that the lesson of the failure of its predecessor had been learned and that ponderous articles would be eschewed. Among its more famous editors were C. C. Felton, later professor of Greek and president of the University, George S. Hilliard and Robert B. Winthrop. Many articles of real literary merit appeared in its pages and it deserved a longer period of existence than it enjoyed. But indifference on the part of its contributors made its continued publication impracticable...
...French revolution "overthrew in one vast ruin Church, State and literature," in which latter word seems to be included not only Montesquieu, Voltaire and J. J. Rousseau, who, by the way, led the revolution, but also the German writers, Lessing. Schiller, Goethe. The latter, I may add, like the later English writers, seems to have drawn much inspiration from that same overthrow - after saying all this, proceeds to evolve Victor Hugo and Theophile Gautier from the paltry revolution of 1830, and from these all the other French writers from Zola to Daudet, the American realist and Tolstoi, which latter, after...
...society was now assured. It was carried on in a vigorous and active manner. Weekly meetings were held, at which literary exercises took place, and this was varied by an occasional dramatic entertainment. A room in one of the college buildings was assigned by the faculty. Later the upper hall of Holden Chapel was granted them, a hall in which one hundred and fifty could be seated, and which contained an ample stage for theatrical purpose. Within a few years the society has moved to new rooms on Brattle street...
...editorial board, which will consist of the above members of the third year class, together with members from the second and first year classes, has not yet been fully made up, and will be announced later. The president of the association will, ex officio, occupy the position of editor-in-chief. Mr. J. W. Mack has been chosen as business manager...
...trust that Yale will vote to reconsider this decision at once. But in any case, even if Princeton and Harvard remain in the present association, a change is bound to come sooner or later, and a new league will be formed within a very few years, if not during the present season...