Word: hand
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...least, take its utility for granted. The question at issue is the time at which the study and practice of the art should be commenced. According to our author, "a man must have a vast number of well-arranged facts and settled opinions before he can speak off-hand with ease." In other words, after years of cloister student-life, in which his learning is being augmented and his opinions digested, the man will one day blossom into a full-grown orator. Now on this point we are decidedly sceptical. We have always held, and still hold, to the idea...
...kiss my hand to thee; adore...
...hand of improvement has visited us quite severely during the vacation. The settees have been removed from several recitation-rooms and their places filled by some indescribable desks (?). The smell of black walnut and fresh varnish in the rooms suggests an undertaker's shop most forcibly. Prophetic of some future dead...
...naturally wears a hat; and whatever events a sight of the old beaver over the fireplace or the brown straw with the faded blue ribbon will bring back, first the season when it was worn, then particular scenes and experiences. Thus is half one's past kept at hand in a convenient treasury, from which the wealth of the past is easiest drawn, - by old hats...
...Record comes to hand just as we go to press. It contains an editorial on the next Regatta, from which we have only space to copy the following item of interest...