Word: manner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...while rounding the curve. In the meantime Sawyer of Princeton was taking his pace from Kelley and at the beginning of the straightaway passed him and started after Young. The latter rose to the occasion and exerted all his strength, running the last 100 yards in a phenomenal manner. Gamble and Haff of Michigan overtook Kelley 30 yards from the finish but were unable to catch Sawyer. Captain MacArthur of Cornell and Hough of Pennsylvania followed the Michigan men in at the finish...
When this fearful poem has faded from the reader's mental view, he will find the rest of the number satisfying. The second article, "A Liberal Education," by Mr. D. L. MacVeagh, answers recent critics of the University in a worthy and dignified manner. The story, "The Best Laid Schemes," begins with elaborate plans to catch the reader's attention, and then after complicated stimulation of his interest, leaves him with the sense that he has been duped into reading an inconsequential tale. Mr. Williams's "An Inexpensive Tragedy," though much less pretentious in its form, is much more interesting...
...mechanical features of such a scheme are wholly practicable. It would be comparatively easy to draw up a board of judges composed of professors in colleges other than Harvard and Yale. While under consideration, the several papers could be numbered in such a manner that the judge would have no inkling as to what college the author belonged. The winner of the competition would not necessarily have to have a monetary reward. A merely nominal prize, such as a medal, would serve just as well the purpose for which the competition would be started...
...Moeldner played the movement from the Schumann concerto with fluent and well-founded technique, an excellent interpretive style, although he tended at times to undue self-restraint. The orchestra accompanied alike with freedom and self-control in a manner that reflected highly upon its skill as well as that of its conductor...
...acting as a whole was remarkably good; and less amateurish than one has a right to expect of undergraduates. The few lapses into awkwardness of manner or speech served chiefly to make conspicuous the astonishingly high degree of genuineness and ease. I hope one may say without arrogance that the few defects seemed more often to be in the play than the players. And at that the play is a good...