Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Puritan time, the boy, the girl, the mother and the father, came to prayer each night as they had done in the morning. Is it not clear that if we could make a town, a state, a nation begin each day in this way and with the purpose to glorify God, that it could achieve impossibilities...
...debate of the Harvard Union last night was decidedly successful and the competitive speaking proved that there were a large number of good speakers in college, who were able in the short time allowed them to make a clear and concise argument. The four men chosen by the judges are doubtless the most able speakers among the undergraduate body; and the fact that the judges were unable to decide upon the required number of these shows that the speaking was of unusually high merit. The three men, therefor, who will finally be chosen from these four will be the best...
...same tendency predominates in the verse of the Harvard Advocate; prose articles are of a less serious character. Both papers, however, too often permit the overcrowding of large ideas to produce a strained effect, or obscure the clear sense of the thought. Sometimes the intense degenerates into the absurd, and the bold epithet into mere affection; this is of course, the chief danger in all college papers that aim at marked originality, and yet in these two papers is found some of the best, and nearly all of the strongest poetry written by college students...
...rendering was always intelligent and sympathetic The Aria has little of the fire work element about it and therefore to sing it well is to put one's soul into it, not so much being required, perhaps, in the way of mere execution. Throughout, the enunciation was remarkably clear and this is one of the best features of the soloist's work...
...spoken as in written English, clearness, force and elegance must be striven for. Brea hing has much to do with clear speech and also conduces much to is forcibleness. Mechanical exercises in teaching are to be avoided. Surely reading Shakespeare's works gives abundant opportunity for the practising of all sounds, and the reading of novels, helps much in giving a resonant and delicate modulation of tone. Artificiality must be strictly avoided, though it is admissable in painting, sculpture and other arts. No man reads without its having an effect on his voice; he cannot speak well without a book...