Word: write
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Latin, English, German, and French, with an extra first-year honor section in Sanscrit. For the Sophomores the study selected as most important was Rhetoric. The same division into five languages was to be resorted to, and, besides the use of text-books, each Sophomore should be required to write, on an average, three themes a week. For the more mature Juniors an aesthetical course was designated, namely, a course in music. It was proposed to take Memorial Hall, and rent one hundred and fifty Chickering pianos, to be arranged in rows around the hall. The exercises on the pianos...
...remark has often been made, that many graduates of Harvard, despite the instruction in Rhetoric, and the number of required themes and forensics, are unable to write a respectably good letter; meaning, thereby, one that is correct in grammar, spelling, and expression. That this is the case is not at all improbable, as men receive their degree on the average mark in all the studies; and thus a very low mark in a certain study, if accompanied by a high one in some other branch, does not preclude a degree...
This great disgrace (for, no matter how it is explained away, it is a disgrace) might be remedied by exacting many more themes and forensics from those who should fall below a certain mark than are now required. There is no doubt that if the men were required to write a theme, say once a fortnight, the more obvious faults of their style - if they can be said to have a style - would be so often brought to their notice, that even the dullest could not help correcting them. The College has already taken this matter in hand...
Many of the Professors and others who are acquainted with the history of the University, and who have been long interested in its welfare, have expressed a willingness to write these histories...
THOUGH every day brings short-hand writing more into use, yet the notions held concerning it, both by the general public and by men in college, are still very erroneous. For the latter these mistaken ideas are particularly unfortunate, since short-hand can hardly be of greater benefit to any one than to those studying for a profession and constantly requiring notes of important lectures, in which each sentence contains a fact or suggestion not to be lost without injury. The life of professional men, too, presents many opportunities when the employment of a mode of writing four or five...