Word: manner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...communication in regard to the representation of the Scientific School on Commencement Day is published because it very likely gives expression to a widespread conception and not because it reflects the real state of affairs. The speakers on Commencement Day are not selected in the same manner from all the departments of the University. The College, for example, sets a definite standard which students must reach in order to compete, while the Law School Faculty simply calls for volunteers and selects the most fitting representative from these. The matter is largely one of custom, the one desire being to secure...
...pronunciation is essentially that. It is not strange that the islanders should have swung away from their continental neighbors in this matter, but it is strange that they should have adhered to their perverse pronunciation in spite of all the efforts of various intelligent persons to adopt in some manner the continental system. Milton, like a sturdy Puritan, fought vigorously against it, and Walter Scott opposed it, though his more gentle disposition made him finally yield to the custom of Court and College...
...conform to the peculiarities of the metre, is no slight achievement. Even this, however, is not the greatest difficulty which has to be overcome. Through about half of the play the actors are accompanied by music, which makes it a very easy matter to fall into a sing-song manner of delivery. That this was so carefully and successfully avoided is very greatly to the credit of the students who took the various parts...
...language itself. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Latin language is more thoroughly dead than almost any other dead language. Partly from the formal, serious, and matter of fact character of the people who developed and used it (or rather used and developed it), and partly from the manner in which it has been employed for the last thousand years, Latin has become a kind of monumental language, associated with epitaphs and triennial catalogues. It has ceased to be a natural means of expressing thought to English speaking people. Thousands of persons can express thought in Latin and millions...
...gives, when merely read, very little suggestion of actual thought. Few people have the dramatic imagination sufficiently to project the words into real life. But, when a character is impersonated on the stage, the words get a reality from the embodiment that can not be had in any other manner. Though Latin plays have the additional unreality of verse, yet, when the words are uttered by a real person with some...