Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...glad to meet any persons, who desire to visit the Semitic Museum, at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon. After a few preliminary words in Lecture Room 1 of the Museum, he will conduct the party through the various exhibition rooms. Professor Lyon hopes to receive visitors in this manner at frequent intervals, but as yet no definite arrangements for the future have been made...
...case under consideration the changing of tradition to written law would have another important effect: it would familiarize succeeding classes of Freshmen with those traditions, and would perpetuate them in a manner far better than the oral transmission from year to year can possibly...
...exceedingly sweet and poetical language, it is in its usual utterance even among educated people, and especially in the United States, the most abused language in the world. For the last twenty years there has been manifest in the professions and in society a carelessness in speech and in manner of delivery which makes one ask: What is to be the end of this decadence...
...Riddle gave many illustrations of the common errors in pronunciation and enunciation and in oratorical and the atrical delivery. While in subject-matter public speakers have broken loose from the conventional, in manner of speaking there has been very little progress. In the desire to be colloquial, speakers have become too familiar with their audiences and have failed to realize that careful training is requisite for simple, and convincingly effective public speaking...
...very fact that these men beat out undergraduates for the positions, shows that the teams must be strengthened by them. Owing to her small graduate schools. Yale plays few graduates. Such a rule then must inevitably be to our disadvantage. At present the graduate school in some manner offsets the advantage Yale gets by her careful system of attracting the best athletes from the preparatory schools. That Yale does this, by entirely fair means (it is perhaps granted), her own men acknowledge. Can any graduates be more justly put in the class of veterans than Sheldon, Glass and Hogan...