Word: manner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students, the clubs and their members, some of the more important examination papers, and a statement of a number of such cases as are argued before the clubs. The club system, with which few undergraduates are acquainted, will be explained, and the cases are stated, both to render the manner of work clearer and in order that any club may readily secure a case for argument by reference...
...science, and must be studied as such. Crews may differ from year to year in bone and muscle, but these are differences over which we have but little or no control. The energies of Harvard's leading boating-men should, then, be directed to the manner of rowing, or to what the English call "form." Much has been said and written about the famous "Harvard stroke." I do not hesitate to brand such trash with the name of buncombe, and I earnestly beg Harvard's aquatic chiefs not to be beguiled by like nonsense. There is but one good...
...received an exceedingly neat little book containing the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, which Dr. Smith, in his History of Rome, classes among the most delightful productions of the human intellect. The name of the translator, known to us all through his Ancient Atlas, is a sufficient guaranty of the manner in which the translation has been made. We have room but for one extract. It applies particularly to those who find difficulty in going to prayers...
Whoever takes up the book will read it with interest, and by those who are personally acquainted with the author it will be welcomed with joy. The manner in which the work is published is admirable: the typography, binding, etc., have been done with taste as well as skill. As a whole, the work calls only for compliments...
...intended for biting sarcasm. The Cornell paper revels in the fact that the meeting was a small one; it proceeds to say that the delegates wanted "some more noted college" to lend a little prestige to the affair." Therefore they "proceeded to attitudinize in a peculiarly enticing manner before Harvard." "But Harvard had acquired considerable sagacity in its adversity, and probably remembering another (Association' to which it belonged once upon a time, and the forlorn hope it was compelled to lead there by some precocious 'Western upstarts,' it politely declined the proffered honor." We are not called upon to defend...