Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college student, these gentlemen maintain that there is no practical course other than connection with a college paper, and they strongly advise connection with some outside daily at the time. A man should learn to know what he wants to say, and then say it in the clearest and fewest possible words. Good practice is obtained by reporting events for pleasure and comparing with the newspaper accounts. Much attention should be given to Law, History, and English Literature, as well as the other subjects mentioned by Mr. Reid...
...brother, Mr. F. P. Nash of Baltimore, has prepared and privately published a very readable monograph on the life and writings of the late Hon. George P. Marsh, who passed so many years in the United States diplomatic service, and who was also one of the wisest and clearest of American scholars in many departments of philosophy...