Word: giving
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...piteously begged me to give him a nice and well-formed "Enthymeme...
...Prolonged cachinnation from both.)THE Harvard Natural History Society wishes to give notice to members that its meetings take place bi-weekly, and not semi-annually...
...thinkers of Greece and Rome were read, not as etymological and grammatical puzzles, but for their beauties of idea and of expression. The student was not asked to rack his brains and search the grammar for the peculiar technical reason for an uncommon use of a subjunctive, or to give a long dissertation on the ground of a Grecian author's choice of the infinitive with av instead of the optative. It was supposed that the average student had sufficient general knowledge of grammatical principles, after four or five years of careful preparation, to dispense with comments and questions...
...clear that there ought to be no instruction whatever in this particular study. How can this growing evil, then, be remedied? Certainly not by the present action of the College. For just as matters in that quarter are shown to be at their worst, they think proper to give up the ship entirely, and deny to the present Sophomore and Freshman classes even the meagre instruction before doled out. In this one respect our College is and has for a long time been behind other smaller institutions. These have good instruction by eminent elocutionists furnished them, while we are forced...
...design of those having the matter in charge to enter into a theoretical discussion of principles already settled, nor to give the reasons why one theory is to be desired in preference to another; but simply to describe a system which, having stood the test of practical experience, is considered, if followed, to give the best results. That there is a want of such a work among the lovers of aquatic sports who have not yet joined the College, but intend to do so soon, is evinced by the glaring faults into which they have ignorantly fallen, and to overcome...