Word: greates
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Which judiciously urges great caution when playing with very sharp tools...
...brief two weeks of performance were heartily sorry to hear of her sudden illness. Miss Ethel has won the Boston heart, and we trust that she will soon return and complete her too short engagement. The part of Agnes has been assumed by Mrs. Barry this week with great success, considering how short was the time given her for preparation...
...figure and youthful as to his face, the historical correctness of his assumption was not in any way mended by his donning a suit of blue clothing with red or pink stripes, red leggings, and top boots; however, his nose was very red, and that goes a great way with an audience. During the evening, the Majiltons performed their one act, with which we are pretty familiar by this time. It was, of course, encored...
...from reading fifty lines of Milton once in four weeks (anything in the Dean's Report to the contrary notwithstanding) last year, yet they are not to blame for not yet feeling fully accomplished in that particular. We grant that the infrequency of these recitations was due in a great measure to disturbances created by the divisions during recitation, in accordance with a traditionary and time-honored custom; but because it was time-honored, we cannot believe that it was entirely the fault of the students, and therefore the removal of the venerable instructor to a field where his great...
...else this method of cramming would be decried as much as the other. For many ideas are forced upon the memory without being understood, and whenever this is done evil surely results. My experience, which I think is not peculiar, is that it is best to neglect in great measure the recitations, till a general idea of the whole matter and of the relation of its parts to one another is impressed on the mind. Then, by several reviews, minute, thorough knowledge can be gained with great ease and no injury. If President Eliot's suggestions are acted upon, there...