Word: air
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...without any definite knowledge of its meaning. Avoid authoritative terms and generalizations. There is often too much stress laid on trifling subjects. Statistics are tiring and of no great benefit to the student. Many errors occur in text books, such as misleading statements in regard to the tides, the air about the equator, rain and volcanoes. In the whole course of geographical study, whether it be in determining what to do or to omit, the essential requisite is to read, study and work continually...
...curious changes and chances which have entered into the history of the little settlement of Singleton, in Lancashire. The description has a delightful simplicity of manner and a charming lightness of touch that seem almost to give one a whiff of the very breath of the English country air. No one could give such a description better than Mr. Herford, for a truly English sympathy with country life is one of his most lovable characteristics...
...conceived with the idea of representing a person by an instrument, and the circumstances about that person's life by the rest of the orchestra. The wanderings of this hero are expressed in the most remarkable way by the variations in the viola part. This solo instrument carries an air through the whole piece, which, while it is always in harmony with the rest of the parts is always entirely different from them. In the leading of his solo part however the composer did not neglect the rest of the work which is remarkable in its conception and completion...
...debate itself brought out with a good deal of emphasis the point that the oratorical powers of the average Harvard man are far from wonderful or even creditable. The men who spoke last evening had fairly good ideas, but most of them were unable to air them intelligently and forcibly. Lack of practice has doubtless much to do with this condition of things. The want of self-confidence exhibited by many of the speakers was largely due to this lack of practice. There is no reason why, with the opportunities at hand, speaking should not be more widely cultivated...
...increasing interest, as more high-class experts than ever before are to compete. Among those expected being Messrs. V. G. Hall and Edward W. Hall of New York; F. H. Hovey the veteran champion of Harvard College and several English cracks, who will lend the affair an air of international importance...