Word: excerpt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following excerpt is taken from an editorialin the Cambridge Tribune of Nov. 10th...
...publish an excerpt from a recent criticism of public speaking at Harvard, which is creating wide comment. It certainly is not difficult to account for such a criticism. It is merited and the writer has far from overstated the facts as they exist. It has long been deemed among the students a trivial matter to pursue any regular course of voice instruction and the natural result is that for several years the public speaking has been as a rule execrable. The speaking at commencement would disgrace any other college than that one which so proudly holds such matters light. When...
...last Nation contains an excerpt from the President's report...