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...newspaper men lucky because they are writing all the time, and I do not think so meanly of their product as the present popular disparagement would seem to require. It is hasty work undoubtedly, and bears the marks of haste. But in my judgment, at no period of the English language has there been so high an average of sensible, vivacious and informing sentences written as appears in our daily press...
...Remember the other person" and "Lean on your subject" are the last two precepts. The author acknowledges that he has passed by "a whole class of helpful influences" and has "assumed that our cultivation in English is to be effected by naked volition and a kind of dead lift." He recommends him who would speak or write well to "live in the society of good speakers and writers, "for the society of the greatest writers is open to the most secluded...
This afternoon at 4.30 in Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will give a lecture on "English Life in the 18th Century." It will be in the series Mr. Copeland is now giving on the English novelists. The methods of travelling, state of the roads, the penal code, marriage laws and general condition of the different classes of English society in the 18th century will all be discussed. The lecture will be open to members of the University only...
Lecture. English Life in the Eighteenth Century. Mr. Copeland. Sever...
This lecture is supplementary to the course on English Novelists, in which the next regular lecture will be on Tuesday, March...