Word: manner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...universityes fit men for practical life?" This arises from the mistaken conception that the purpose of the University is to teach men the useful and practical in life. On the contrary the true object of a university is to educate the minds committed to its charge in the broadest manner possible, to store the mind with knowledge and culture. Like life, the university teaches not directly but by indirection. In after experience with the world a man can build on this broad and sure foundation. It is this general culture which has given to England and the world that most...
...Margaret Deland, entitled "The Wisdom of Fools." It is a series of short sketches of the lan Maclaren type, dealing with life in a manufacturing town in the West. The one thing which makes itself almost painfully apparent throughout is the cynicism of the author. In a sarcastic manner she sneers at the existing social system, and in a covert way advances the ideas of socialism. Like much else that has been written, it treats the world as being all wrong, all employers being grinding oppressors and all poor men injured and down-trodden. The general impression left...
...read two of the selections from "Colonel Carter" in a truly charming vein, capturing his audience completely. Miss Stuart also read one of her sketches of Southern life-"Maria's Mo'nin'." The sketch itself runs in a vein of contagious humor, and Miss Stuart read it in a manner calculated to bring out all there was in it. Charles Follen Adams, in his Dutch dialect poems, has long been known, and last evening his success was as great as ever...
...Field, Providence, by a score of 8 to 2, in a game in which the Brown men easily outplayed their rivals. The work of the Brown men was characterized by snappy playing, both at the bat and in the field, while Harvard seemed to play in a most listless manner. The only redeeming feature of the work of the Harvard nine was the manner in which Paine and Loughlin caught two Brown men off second base in the first inning...
Yesterday afternoon in Sanders Theatre, M. Brunetiere delivered the first of his three lectures on Moliere. Professor de Sumichrast, Chairman of the Department of French, presented Professor Bocher, who introduced the lecturer. M. Brunetiere spoke in a most interesting and forcible manner and held the close attention of his auditors throughout. He dealt with the early life and work of Moliere from his birth until...