Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Crewman receives back his theme heavily scored and underscored with marginal notes of "wretched grammar," "very bad taste," "atrocious English," utter lack of sense and want of connection." Remarks: "It is hard to conceive of a mind capable of producing such a villainous piece of work. The man that wrote it was evidently drunk." Mr. Crewman who reads this delicate censure upon his pet ideas, starts off with blood in his eyes and an Indian club to interview Freshworthy, while Freshworthy with his double-barreled shot-gun is looking up another man. Three-fourths of the section are seeking gore...
...meanest man in college has been discovered. He scratched the address from the face of one of the prayer petition postals, wrote another address on it, scratched the printed matter from the back, wrote a private message on it and mailed...
...giving an outline of the novel or article which was to be criticised. This fall the instructor who lectured on junior themes again emphasised the need of such an arrangement in a really good criticism. Almost every junior in writing his first theme this year followed this advice and wrote a synopsis of the work criticised. When the themes were returned the following was written upon almost every theme, "Why tell the story; this is not criticism. Re-write." To rewrite a theme simply because the plan advocated by some instructors was followed is an injustice, to put the case...
...well known "Fay House" on Garden street, in old Cambridge, that Dr. Samuel Gilman, of Charleston, S. C., wrote his ode, "Fair Harvard," in 1836. Dr. Gilman graduated at Harvard in 1811. This house is truly dedicated to Fair Harvard, as it is now the abode of the Annex students...
...Chronicle of Fernando Lopez, in three volumes printed in 1644. Mr. Lowell purchased it at the Sunderland sale in 1882. On the fly leaf of the first volume Mr. Lowell has transcribed the following quotation from a letter which he received from Mr. G. P. Marsh who wrote from Rome, January 19, 1882: - "As I have no means at hand in Rome of ascertaining the full title, I don't know whether No. 2816 is the Chronicle of Fernando Lopez or not. If it is so, he that buys it at its weight in gold will make a cheap bargain...