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...objection that Matthew Arnold made to receiving the title of professor - that so many better entitled to it - professors of dancing, of mesmerism and the like - already bear it, is well know. The Burlington Hawkeye, with its usual forcible style, hits off the same weakness as follows: "A man swims further than any other man - professor; a man cuts corns and cures bunions for a living - professor; he waltzes three hours without resting - professor; plays the fiddle and imparts to others the secrets of the diabolical art - professor; walks a slack rope stretched across the street - professor; goes without eating...
...mark the stage of development in the higher education of women reached at Vassar. It displays a bracing freshness and originality of thought tempered by a pleasant humor that we believe is not approached in any other student publication in this country; while in ease and propriety of literary style it is only rivalled by the publications of the students of Williams...
...interesting synopsis of the preceding lesson, and connected it with the present lesson, with the same spirit that he might have displayed if he were making a short address to some philosophic convention. Another student was called and told to take the next topic. He proceeded in the addressive style, as had his classmate, and so others were called until all the appointed task had been recited. Then the class became a sort of debating society, in which the subject matter recited was the topic under consideration. All manner of puzzling and insinuative questions were put to the old professor...
Color of hair, eyes, beard? Complexion? Style of beauty...
Certain Authors Considered as Masters of Style. Special subject : R. W. Emerson. Prof. A. S. Hill. Sever...