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DEAR MR. EDITOR: I don't feel one bit like writing, but there are some things I want to speak to you about, and I do think it would be so nice to have you give me your opinion about them...
...rare chance, I want to grind...
...adulation and satiric composition were the chief claims to patronage and the means of gaining a livelihood. With Sir Robert Walpole the Augustan age of English literature ceased, and authorship became so precarious an avocation that many authors were reduced to the extremest straits and to absolute want...
...have recently seen references in our exchanges to that much talked of Harvard indifference. The expression is so frequently used that it has become trite and almost lost the little signification which it originally possessed. It is generally regarded as referring to the want of class feeling among the students, and more especially to the personal independence which always characterizes a man capable of finding his own occupation and amusement. The disappearing of the childish ill-feeling toward men of a higher class, is one of the most potent indications of a university, and it seems strange that its absence...
...professors delighted the third year engineers the other day with his views on the so-called "marking system." He argues, and with some force, that a lawyer, in order to find out what a witness knows, does not want a written, but an oral examination; that written examinations are often purposely ambiguous in order to hide ignorance, and that, in his experience of thirty years' teaching, "marking does not show, either absolutely or even relatively, the amount of a student's knowledge on any given subject." We should like to get the professor's ideas upon co-education. - [Acta Columbiana...