Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Should lose such glorious chances, - 't is too bad...
...deficient. Even after the first year there are no steps taken to secure a thorough English education for the students. Sophomore rhetoric increases rather than diminishes the evil, because the least attractive side of the study is presented. We ought rather to read good English than attempt to correct bad; and rhetoric, naturally connected with composition, is, by the present system, entirely divorced from it. Recitations in rhetoric are attended, themes are written; but what connection between the two exists in the mind of the student? Our English electives, too, are deficient, not in quality, but in quantity; they cover...
...always heard that in the last few moments of a person's life, all the actions, good and bad, of his career rush to his memory. But with me it was not so. I tried to look back over my past life, to recall my boyhood, my college days, and the few preceding years; but instead of that I found myself attempting some jingling nurseryrhyme, and was vexed because there was one note which I could not catch. I thought of the axe, and tried to imagine the blood spurting out over it. But I discovered that I was endeavoring...
...think themselves into the position of older people, that fault-finding and even lack of charity to instructors must be expected from them. But older people have once been young themselves, and for them to punish with such severity a fault that is more a hopeful than a bad sign in a student, is certainly unwise, if not criminal...
...Chronicie has some amusingly bad verses. The poetical editor should have looked at them a little more carefully. It is too late in the century to scan beach and fiend as two syllables each...