Word: lit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Vassar Miscellany.We dare not attempt, within our limited space, to boast of dealing justly by the three "literary" magazines, - the Cornell Review, the Nassau Lit., and the Yale Lit. We dare not award the palm of superiority to any one, when all are so excellent. But the whole system of such undergraduate "magazining" seems to us radically wrong, and therefore are we no impartial judge. The Review publishes more good poetry; the Yale Lit. excels in literary criticism, Notabilia, and Portfolio; the Nassau inclines both to philosophy and to legendary matter of a ghostly sort, induced, as the Acta would...
...Yale Lit...
...Lordship lit a cigarette thoughtfully, and with an air of condescending grace that made him a hero in Tommie's inexperienced eyes. But she was not awed; American girls never are. She was simply roused to enthusiasm. She said...
...crude and hasty. . . Returning eastward, we find the Princetonian, which has improved very much, of late, in the way of contributed articles. Its editorial articles have always been well written. We cannot say so much for the poetry, from which its columns are however, mainly free; but the Nassau Lit. publishes verses execrably and intolerably bad . . . The 'Varsity, of Toronto, is one of our newer papers; and, if it shows no traces of youthful faults, certainly is free from the weaknesses of age. . . Of the Argus (Wesleyan), we say nothing, because, as of the Trinity Tablet, there is nothing...
...Yale Lit. is good, but more amusing in such light articles as the "Teatotum Club," or the "Portfolio" department, than in heavier things...