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...reading, is nevertheless apparently at fault in some not unimportant respects. A theme is written by the student on one of several subjects assigned by the instructor, handed in at the appointed time, and then returned to the student corrected by the instructor according to his own ideas of style, expression, et cetera. This way is well enough, provided we take the instructor in question as absolute authority in all questions arising in this subject, and fashion our style after the model preferred by the instructor. In many cases the beauties or advantages of the model, if there...
Thus, instead of being seekers after a strong, original style and clear expression, we become copyers of a style which another has adopted as being in his own mind good enough for all and beyond criticism. Theme writing cannot, of course, be dispensed with, but to improve as much as possible the various styles of the students, we think a greater range in subjects should be given, and that one rather impracticable should not be adopted as a criterion. The style which we endeavor to imitate is no doubt beautiful and good for some subjects, but the fact that...
...which was progressing so actively in England at that time - in the younger days of Byron and Wordsworth - had made its influence felt in America also, and was bringing about intellectually the same new renascence which occurred in England in the first half of this century. But the literary style of the eighteenth century still lingered about our college, and traces of the pedantic influence of its scholarship are observable throughout the volume. I find the French Revolution here spoken of several times with a sense of nearness that is strange to us, but always with an expression of that...
...Alma Mater, who, standing in immediate proximity to us, should have been a force on the right hand and on the left of their brothers to protect their reputation and assert their merit." "Harvard indifference" again, we hear Snodkins whisper! They truly claim, I think, "that the poetico-bombastick style of newspaper eloquence, which has been often and liberally ascribed to college, is as little the defect of our execution, as the object of our ambition." Very bitterly they continue: "The world without cares for nothing but politicks and commerce and news; it is a money-making, quarrelsome world...
...some unaccountable manner we have stirred up the solemn indignation of the Chronicle, and consequently we find ourselves confronted with a most severe and formidable lecture from our Ann Arbor friends upon the sins of sectional prejudice and local conceit. That same native vigor and rude energy of style which we found so remarkable in the case of the Review, is equally striking in the case of the Chronicle: therefore we have been led to connect, after the fashion of cause and effect, this mental malady (so characterized by illusion and belligerency), with the spasmodic intensity of style which pervades...