Word: manner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appointed for Prof. Adler to deliver his lecture on "Ethics and Culture," all the seats especially reserved for Harvard students as well as those open to the public, were filled by an eager audience. Prof. Adler was briefly introduced by Prof. James, and in an easy, slow and dignified manner began by defining the meaning of ethics and culture. The meaning of the first of these terms is definite and clear, of the latter, loose and vague. There are three marks of culture, literary tastes, aesthetic tastes and ease and freedom in the forms of polite society. One having these...
...address from him, then to ex-Pres. Porter's where the same ceremony occurs, then to ex-Pres. Woolsey's where they simply cheer. Then they return to the campus. The sophomore orator speaks first, giving their fence to the freshmen and the freshman orator responds in a fitting manner and the class go and sit on the fence. This closes their career as freshmen...
...rights of personal property have always seemed sacred and inviolable to me, but evidently there are some students here who think that private towels, if they are outside of the lockers, were put there for general use. I know there are others who have been served in the same manner as myself, and that such depredations are now becoming a positive nuisance. Will not an appeal to the consciences of those who like to take other people's property have the effect of making them desist in the future? I am sure it will be a source of gratification...
...Boscovitz was announced as the soloist of the evening but was ill, and Miss Gertrude Edmands was substituted. She sang the Bruch aria in a dramatic and finished manner, but her voice is not of a pleasing quality and is not powerful. The Grieg song showed off her voice to the best advantage. The accompanist evidently was laboring under the impression that he was the soloist of the evening...
...speak last evening in Sever 11 on the method of using the catalogue in the college library. After a few introductory remarks on the importance of the library in regard to the other departments of the college, the lecturer directed all his attention to the card catalogue and the manner of using it. The card catalogue is divided into two parts-an author catalogue and a subject catalogue. In the author catalogue, each book is entered under its author's name in alphabetical order, his collective works, and then his single works. The different editions of his works are mentioned...