Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Alcee Fortier vice-president of the Federation de L'Alliance Francaise in the United States and a professor of Tulane University at New Orleans, yesterday afternoon lectured under the auspices of the Cercle Francais on "La Louisiane." M. Fortier reviewed in detail the history of Louisiana from the time the territory was first settled by the French up to the date of the purchase by the United States under the administration of President Jefferson. He went on to tell of the work which the Alliance Francaise is doing in the state in the cultivation of French literature and closed...
...disappearance of Ernest C. Mansfield 2L. still remains a mystery both to his friends and to the police. A detail of the harbor police from Boston, as well as the Cambridge police and some of Mansfield's friends, have been dragging the river since Saturday morning at the spot near which is wherry is supposed to have capsized, in the hope of finding his body, but so far their efforts have been unsuccessful...
...perfunctory manner but were trying hard every minute to perfect and put into execution what the coaches told them. It was in this way that they learned the game, and when it came to the test, their learning, gained at the expense of hard work and attention to detail, stood them in good stead. The hardest games of the season are now confronting the team, and beginning with Brown on Saturday, every contest will try the capabilities of the eleven to the utmost...
...reliability of the evidence adduced to support each argument. This evidence cannot be too specifle. In the development of a University team it is an axiom that every contention drawn from an outside source be followed by full information as to the source and this even to the detail of a writer's official title or the page and name of the volume quoted. Mere rhetoric and as sertion unaccompanied by proof are considered of slight worth, and while the skiltul use of persuasion is encouraged, the ultimate goal is conviction by accompanied by re-enforcing evidence...
...article which deserves special mention for its delicate and sympathetic treatment is "The Children's Room," by V. V. M. Beede. The whole sketch is done with a fidelity to detail and a genuineness of feeling that brings back to the reader many pleasant, half-forgotten memories...