Word: manner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...graduate club has been formed in the college with quite a large membership. This has in a large manner been patterned after the one in existence at Harvard at the present and its aims will be to provide for original research in different departments by its members, and to draw together more closely the graduate students separated as they are by difference of aims...
...usual, Dr. Fiske treated his subject in a most personal, direct manner, giving such details of the circumstances of each action, and the individual character and motives of the men who controlled affairs, listener could not but feel an intimate, vivid interest in the great events under discussion. The audience was as before, large and appreciative...
Messrs. Ginn and Co. have recently published a work by Greenough White entitled the philosophy of English Literature. The author has treated the evolution of English literature from the Middle Ages in a satisfactory manner. He clearly traces the descent of modern literary poems from the early Anglo-Saxon writings. The Arthurian tales are discussed at length. The work is of incalculable value to a student of our literature and should be included in every library...
...immediately. Thereupon the ceremony takes place, which is full of mock pompousness from beginning to and. The leading figure is the Praeses, or President of the Faculty, a dignified official who, with a sonorous voice, drawls out the Latin formulas. Two other doctors add their opinions in the same manner, and then, the bachelerius, or doctor-elect, makes reply. During these ceremonies there are continual interruptions of approval from the chorus, signified by gestures, clapping and the following formula...
...every intelligent household is "The Human Foot and the Art of Shoeing," by Dr. Samuel Appleton, author of "The Hygiene of the Foot." It contains a vast amount of practical common sense compressed into a comparatively brief space, and the advice it gives, in the clearest and most coherent manner, is invaluable. The explanation of the structure of the foot, with accompanying cuts, must convince any unprejudiced person that the present method of making shoes is, in a great majority of cases, foolish, injurious and destructive of natural beauty. Shoes made on a scientific basis after Dr. Appleton's method...