Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well as a broad and thorough knowledge of his subjects, considerable experience in teaching. A graduate of only one or two years' standing can not fulfil these conditions. He must be unfit for any part of an instructor's work, and especially unsuited for elementary courses, which require a clear view of general principles, rather than accurate knowledge of some special topic. He must be inexperienced in lecturing, conducting recitations and answering questions, and in judging of a student's work. He cannot command the confidence of the men he is teaching. It seems ill advised to place such...
...work and infuse into it his own spirit, how can he expect his work to move others? Moreover, each work has its own word to say; it must embody but one idea, and unless this word is spoken, the whole is a failure, no matter how true and clear the details...
...wider even than that of St. Beuve's. Yet he sometimes fell into ambiguities, and was often led astray by his fondness for phrases. Arnold will always live, nevertheless, as the greatest English critic of the nineteenth century. Arnold's poetry is largely introspective. It is terse, melodious, and clear, but profoundly melancholy. No man's poetry was ever a better guide to his own higher life...
Professor MacVane's Political Economy, which will soon appear and of which some of the proof sheets have been distributed to members of Political Economy courses, will be a handy volume of about three hundred and fifty pages. It is printed in clear type with convenient numbering of paragraphs and suitable sub headings for each one. At the end of each chapter there are a number of questions and tests on the subject matter under discussion, and at the end of the book there is an appendix giving a summary of the tariff schedule of the United States. Professor MacVane...
...Thomas W. Ferry, formerly president of the United States senate says: "I take pleasure in recommending it as a systematic, concise, and complete manual, covering in brief and clear statement the present state of Parliamentary Law as modified by authoritative practice. As a book of ready and reliable reference it is entitled to great respect...