Word: hilled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fifteen years ago Prof. Hill came to Harvard. From that time he has been working to carry out his plan of more thorough instruction in English. Meeting opposition on every side, in the preparatory schools, as well as among the students and in the faculty, he kept on. In spite of apathy or difference of opinion among his associates he still worked for his department. Everywhere he went he met the statement, 'I write well enough, and I was never taught English.' This hostility, or at best indifference, had to be overcome. Finally he drew to himself the young...
...topics, but the article which we reprint on the first page to-day is a tribute to the efficiency of this department instead of being one of the said periodical complaints. Those who have criticised may learn something from the statements of this writer: He tells how, when Professor Hill first came to Cambridge, the English department was unworthy of its name of department, and if one sees mistakes and insufficiencies now, one ought to judge them not in the light of an ideal but in the light of the past, and then be thankful for present blessings, instead...
103Freshman English. I will tutor in Hill's Rhetoric a few hours a day. J. W. Dalzell, '79, 15 Appian...
103Freshman English. I will tutor in Hill's Rhetoric a few hours a day. J. W. Dalzell, '79, 15 Appian...
103Freshman English. I will tutor in Hill's Rhetoric a few hours a day. J. W. Dalzell, '79, 15 Appian...