Word: fors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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IN accordance with the vote passed at the O. K. dinner last year, the committee then appointed have made arrangements for a second dinner and reunion of the past and present members of the society, on Tuesday evening, April 2, 1878, at Young's Hotel, in Boston. Rev. George L...
THE subject for the next Senior Forensic, 1st division, Is ridicule a test of truth? References : Shaftesbury's "Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humor"; Akenside's "Pleasures of the Imagination," note on 3d Book; Bentham's "Works," Vol. 11. pp. 114, 360. Specimens of ridicule employed argumentatively : many...
THE last Advocate, in an editorial, makes a personal attack on the instructor in Sophomore Rhetoric. The writer of this piece implies that the instructor is neither "sensible" nor "competent," and is to blame for the ill-bred conduct of some members of his class. The Faculty is recommended to...
No one who reads this piece can fail to conclude that the writer has a personal grievance. In his indignation he has, I think, forgotten the facts; for he implies that the rhetoric "class occupies itself in the recitation-room with stamping and clapping." There has been no clapping.
Many of us noticed that in the last rhetoric examination those who had read and heard good English generally had good marks. Some, who by application and hard work had in other subjects done well, were surprised and provoked by their low standing. In this way only can we account...