Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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SHORTHAND.- A class in shorthand exclusively for Harvard college students will be formed in Lyceum hall Harvard square, beginning Tuesday evening, March 4th, at 7 o'clock, and will continue Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings inclusive, at which time the regular recitals will be named. Mr. A. O. Hall, author of Hall's "Multum in Parvo" Phonography, will be present and will explain the superiority of his new system of shorthand. This course will be arranged so as not to interfere in the least with the regular course at college. By this new methed a thorough mastery of the shorthand...
...ruthless way in which their heroes have been descrated in Mark Twain's last production "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." There is a tone about the book which grates harshly upon the sensibilities of the reader-a tone which calls forth the feeling that the author would have succeeded far better had he displayed half the good taste that he has the humor. This last characteristic is the most noteworthy of the good qualities of the book which is really a combination of satire and wit. English nobility and royalty are lashed unsparingly by Mr. Clemen...
...author's style in this work, as in his others, is always bright and refreshing, but here also are occasional lapses into a lower order of wit than is worthy of the writer. As a book, however, full of situations and incidents perfectly absurd and yet highly amusing nothing could be more successful...
...includes a wearisome use of the historical present and such expressions as "inscrutable weariness." The plot has certainly the merit of extreme originality, but is nevertheless decidedly unpleasant, and an unhealthy, toue pervades the whole story, the presence of which in a college periodical, is to be regretted. The author makes mistakes in the gender of his Latin principle and in his use of m'amie for mon ami and mon amie...
...Memory Training," by W. L. Evans, M. A., is a little volume which announces itself as a complete and practical system of developing and training the memory and is "dedicated to the student who masters it." The author divides his subject into two parts. The physiological and the psychological sides considering memory as a "double faced unity." The system taught here does not very greatly from all the others "invented" or discovered of late years. It is a very elaborate system of forcing the mind to follow numerous links in a chain of suggestions till the final object-the thing...