Word: didacticism
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Ballyhooed by this handbill, "Doc" Rockefeller witched dollars out of the pop-eyed citizenry of Midwestern hamlets before the Civil War. Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp. Hence didactic William sharped his own son out of board-money. That son, grateful for sharpness thus acquired, was, is...
Merely because lectures are discontinued, the period preceding examinations is not in any way prolonged, as some seem to believe; and accordingly whatever reading is assigned ought not to tax the student to a greater extent than would the old system during a similar length of time. Theoretically the Reading...
"Early Didactic Novelists", Dr. Maynadies Sever 11.
Didactic, self-righteous, he could have named his papers Citizen, Tribune, Sentinel, Monitor, Leader, Pilot.
Twenty-five years ago Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 took his place on the Supreme Bench of the United States, in that room of the Capital which had been the meeting place of Congress during a century of wery kind of ordeal. It is not merely that Justice. Holmes has given...