Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...almost any work which treats of the art of disciplining the memory, it will be found that whatever method succeeds in presenting before the mind the desired fact in an interesting, lively manner is, on the whole, the most certain of successful operation. And so in history it is generally acknowledged that, after fixing firmly in the mind the main facts to be remembered, whatever serves to engage the attention or provoke the imagination changes what otherwise might be a dull chronicle, burdensome to the memory, into a pleasant reminiscence, almost personal in its character, which will never be forgotten...
...well as some very pretty ball-passing, and we should have nothing to complain of in their treatment of us, were it not for the aggravating delay occasioned in the last twenty minutes of the game by their frequent "rouges," - a perfectly legitimate, though a not very frank manner of playing. The superiority of Princeton's canvas-jackets over our Jerseys was very manifest, and we hope to see our team furnished with similar armor before again encountering these or any other antagonists. All the team are much gratified by the kind attention they experienced at Mr. Barlow's hands...
...other offices should be filled in some manner by which the aim of securing the interest of the whole class should be kept constantly in view. In what way such a selection can be accomplished is a mooted question. Certainly a crowded class meeting is not a place where anything more abstract than personal or factional interest can be adhered to. A plan which was proposed only too late last year was the election in open meeting of a large committee of fifteen or twenty, who should report nominations to the class. In this way a calmer discussion could...
...felt inclined to enter these contests, she has not been uninterested in them. The judges have invariably been men who have acquired a reputation in the subjects to which they were assigned; and in this way many of the contestants have had their work assayed in a much juster manner than would be possible in the contestants' own colleges. But the public have not yet been able to discover just how much an intercollegiate award means; for to know that a student from one college surpassed the students from several other colleges is very indefinite information. Why cannot the association...
...dinner tendered to him" by some society or other. The two words which we have italicized prove sufficiently that the author of the item deserves, at least, to graduate with high honors in newspaper English. There is necessarily a modicum of bad matter in college journals, but bad manner is inexcusable...