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Word: downe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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In this address, Professor Palmer lays down four fundamental precepts for one who is learning to command his own language. "Look well to your speech"; "if we would cultivate ourselves in the use of English, we must make our daily talk accurate, daring, and full."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Reviews. | 2/25/1898 | See Source »

Coach Courtney has given up the idea of organizing a separate crew for law school men, and will now devote his attention to the 'varsity and freshman crews. He will keep nearly all of the present 55 freshman candidates in training until very late in the season, and will have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crews at Cornell. | 2/25/1898 | See Source »

In the same column is a comment on undergraduate writing. "We come here with no experience whatever, and in this interval, when experience is at once lacking and inaccessible, we sit us down to write literature." In a man's Junior year "he overdraws his slender fund of college experiences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 2/25/1898 | See Source »

"The Celebrity" by Winston Churchill (MacMillan and Co.) may be briefiy described as one of those books which it is hard to lay down until finished. It describes the adventures of a young American author, the Celebrity, who disguised under an incognito, visits a summer resort by the great lakes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/24/1898 | See Source »

The following men put down their names as candidates for the ballet of "Le Medecin Malgre Lui," to be given April 11, 12 and 14:

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cercle Francais Meeting. | 2/17/1898 | See Source »

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