Word: papers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last meeting of the Natural History Society, Dr. W. James read a very interesting paper on "The Evolution of the Perception of Motion...
...consider myself habitually of a fault-finding disposition, but in my complaint I am supported by a majority of students, and it seems to us quite an unfair thing for an instructor to give out a paper with as much work on it as is generally to be found in any two hour paper. Although it is quite a difficult thing for him to judge exactly how long his paper shall be, yet he should bear in mind that there are many students who cannot write one half as rapidly as others, and who, also, lacking conciseness in expressing themselves...
...seems to me that it is the quality and not the quantity of the work that instructors should aim at when making out a paper, and not to make one feel at the end of the hour that he had done himself injustice, whereas, if he had had a little more time, he could have given more careful answers, and had a few minutes to spare for the revision of his work...
Though never very studious after this, Motley was a brilliant linguist. He devoted most of his time to literature. Shelley and Praed were his favorite poets. He amused himself by writing sketches, poems, fragments of plays, etc., some of which were printed in the papers of the day, and two poems appeared in the college paper, - the Collegian...
...very great extent for the brilliant success of the burlesque in New York. But to all who took part, and to Mr. Arthur Sherwood in particular, is due great praise for the energy displayed in carrying out so difficult an undertaking. The report in a New York paper that Mr. Sherwood was the author of "Fair Rosamond" is not so far wrong after all, for he has rewritten it almost entirely, and those of us who have ever attempted to reconstruct a single scene can, in a measure, estimate his labor. He has, however, as a recompense for his trouble...