Word: conveyed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entirely wanting. The student knows little of art and his knowledge can be little increased by attendance upon lectures or by perusal of books on art. Nothing can make up for the absence of the actual picture by which alone the impression of form and color can be conveyed. The present modes of instruction at Harvard may help a student to talk about art, but fails to give him a definite understanding of the subject. With a picture or series of pictures before him, the student may gain in a few minutes a better idea of the principles...
...Beecher did not give utterance to the words quoted, nor was the sentiment which he wishes to convey, and which he did convey to those present, such as our contemporary would have its readers believe. Captain Beecher did not train his team "to fight the referee," nor did any one who heard what he said take it that way. The idea which he did give was that he had trained his team to win in spite of all obstacles, even if the referee were one of them. If the Harvard papers have reached that state where they wish to stake...
...letter to Harvard of Sept. 30, was so loosely worded as to convey the impression that it was a positive offer to play on the dates mentioned, the Williams manager was careless. Carelessness is, however, a very different fault from that with which Williams was charged at the base-ball meeting...
Those who have ever grappled with German philosophy and who know the complex and altogether tremendous nature of its vocabulary, can imagine how much meaning such discourses would convey to one still mourning over the mazes of Otto and Ollendorf...
...work. It certainly seems to be a well established fact, that the ability to present one's thought is of so much importance as the thought itself. A man should not only be possessed of the truth, but he should also be master of the means for conveying that truth to his fellow men. To do that he must free himself from all mannerisms which stand as obstacles between himself and the people he would reach. One of the most powerful weapons of the man who would be a leader in public affairs, is the command of his voice...