Word: effections
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...must first learn to read the classics, and when we can read and write them well the beauties of thought and expression will come of themselves, without our having to grub for them, which spoils the whole effect...
...knew a person, an incessant loafer, on whom publics and admonitions had little effect, but when the system of roughing was applied to him, he was unable to stand the pressure, and became an industrious student...
...painful efforts of a passee prima donna. These Oratorios may be very fine, but in our private estimation there is too much heavy music and tiresome recitatives, and, unless these are rendered in an artistic manner, combined with voices adequate to the demands of the music, the effect is anything but pleasant to the hearers...
...would have us dissect each picture; and, if we find a superfluous line or a bit of avoidable coloring, class any painting in which it may appear among the works of base and degraded artists, without regard to its general effect and the impression it produces upon...
...chief advantage the new system will have over the old is that it will compel the students to plan for themselves. This will have the same good effect in college that it has in the outside world, where men who find their judgment a safe guide in some things are likely to trust to it in others rather than to public opinion. College, at present, by no means causes such independence of thought as one would naturally expect...