Word: papers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Suppose a third man to be thus spoken of: "Prolixity, large; self-esteem, big; secretiveness, plentiful; amativeness, immense; paper-collars, overwhelming. You, sir, evidently are designed by Providence for the theological school...
...wish to remind our contributors that they must send us their own names with their articles, and write only on one side of the paper...
...Princetonian, in a paragraph on the Packer Quarterly, completely forgets the ordinary courtesy that one paper owes to another. We heartily approve of criticism; we ourselves intend to criticise, and are willing to be criticised in return. But criticism does not mean simply giving an opinion; it means also giving grounds for that opinion. We quote from the Princetonian...
TRANSLATIONS into verse, in order to pass muster, have to be very good indeed. A tolerable poem in a college paper can be excused, so long as it is original and has promise; but, versification being the only difficulty in translating, good versifying is the only merit of the translator. The thought being the only creditable part of the "The Flower and the Cloud," in the last Yale Courant, and that belonging to its original author, we can see no possible object in its publication...
...Collegian, with a happy combination of injured dignity and scathing sarcasm, denounces the members of the Freshman class for their unanimous refusal to subscribe to the paper. After all, as there are only twenty-two Freshmen, it is hardly worth crying about...