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...presumed that an immature writer whose sole merit is a good command of English, can develop the instant he becomes editor of a college paper into a Stimson or a Stockton; a famous novelist has said that a short story well done, is a more difficult task than a novel, - and it is short stories our college papers demand as a rule. The Monthly has seen this defect, and on account of its appearing at intervals of a month, has been able to present its readers with uniformly good stories, albeit rather gloomy at times. Now, in our humble opinion...
...meet the demands of those who wish to keep pace with the present advance of education. After complaining of a few minor evils which exist in the management of the college, he closes with the prediction that the new president, whoever he may be, will find a heavy task before him in altering the present system of management to one which shall be in conformity with modern requirements...
...Mawr College. Almost every young man will find that one of these seven avenues to a Bachelor's degree will prevent him from wasting time, and he has more than sufficient choice of studies to make it certain that he is not asked to devote himself to an uncongenial task to a greater extent than is good for him. These seven courses go under the following names : classical, mathematical-physical, chemical-biological, physical-chemical. Latin-mathematical, historical-political, and modern language. - Johns Hopkins letter in Evening Post...
...word of advice to the willing to learn is always a pleasant task. And it becomes additionally so when the advice is of a pleasant nature. We wish to call the attention of the freshmen to the society relations of the university. The prurience which some men exhibit in seeking social honors is simply ludicious, while others are just as backward and slow to make acquaintances. Some of us seem to hold up before us as the highest prize of college life admission to some one society. And we are too often led to look upon society relations purely from...
...neither thought nor originality. Yet such a statement is far from true. For it is no light matter to take a given number of facts about an affair of ordinary interest and so arrange them as to hold the attention of a reader. In one way, such is the task of an artist in making colors into a picture. The writer must see what is to be in the foreground, and what in the background, how his state-statements are to be grouped to show his meaning most forcibly. In short, he must have each part subordinate to the expression...