Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lady, with a handsome military hero and stupid rival - and has by clever arrangement made a very interesting sketch. The denouement is particularly happy, and by it the reader's attention is held to the last. We wonder, by the way, what perron in Monaco the hero found so familiar...
...unmask its errors and acknowledge its elements of strength. The present course of lectures is the outcome of a year's close study and Dr. Gladden comes to his audience with new material, carefully matured suggestions for action and that vigor of treatment with which your own citizens are familiar. The three lectures delivered this week are briefly outlined below...
...three great colleges should agree to such an unfair arrangement as this? At all events, no decision should be made until a thorough exposition of the facts conceining the capacities and peculiarities of the Thames River course has been made by some of those who are more or less familiar with that body of water...
...explanation. Doubtless a member of the upper classes would say: - "They are freshmen and so know no better. But as a freshman I dismiss this answer with the contempt it deserves. For my own part, I can devise but one explanation. Probably the men who converse are so thoroughly familiar with the principles of English composition and are so skilled in the practice of it that little, if anything can be added to the knowledge and skill they already possess. Being thus raised so far above us who have not attained this intellectual height (the "ignoble vulgar" as it were...
...part to detract from the value and extent of the work now being accomplished by the present instructor in elocution." No one appreciates more highly than I the efforts of Mr. Hayes to give a thorough training in the art of expression, but it is evident to all familiar with the facilities afforded by the college for the study of elocution, that his work is so restricted that an adequate training in dramatic expression is quite out of the question...