Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...furnishing discipline in this form of writing, no single subject is more interesting to students themselves and to their possible public than literary criticism. With regard to the vexed question of style it may be said that training in composition has, beyond the mastery of the principles of correct and clear expression, the further purpose of developing individuality. A writer's work has value as his work in so far as the style is special to his thought. If his ideas are conventional and derived, his style will draw upon outworn terms and "literary slang." His problem is to know...
Professor Clifford H. Moore lectured last night on "The Shrine of Aesculapius at Epidaurus." There seems, he said, to be no reason to doubt that the old legends are correct when they state that the worship of the god originated in Thessaly and was carried to Argolis by men driven from home by pressure from the north. The shrine held an important place in ancient literature. Even Aristophanes, who burlesques the methods of the priests, seems to have believed in the power of the god. According to official records, lately discovered, the patient slept in the shrine over night...
...afternoon in work which, judged even by the discouraging practices which have been only too frequent lately, seemed distinctly retrograde. Today there will be no practice; on next Monday and Thursday the work will be light, and Tuesday and Wednesday of the last week are thus left to correct the faults of a season...
...that is, at intervals of five, twelve, seventeen, thirty-three and fifty- two days. Dr. Jaggar has had several men at work plotting curves to fill this series, and the general result points to about December 20 as the date of the next explosion, if this theory is correct. The action of Mt. Pelee bears a great analogy to the action of geysers in these particulars...
...Marshall is a capable man at left guard but is too slow and indifferent. Right halfback will be filled by one of an excellent group of players but by which one is still a question. Every individual on the team and the team itself has many faults to correct before the final game with Yale on November 22, but secret practice will be continued up to that time and considerable improvement may be expected...