Word: methods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stands up as fire, and his word burns like a lamp." But too often, when left to his own resources, and to the conscientious performance of the duty laid upon him to be a great poet quand meme, he seems diligently intent on producing fire by the primitive method of rubbing the dry sticks of his blank verse one against the other, while we stand in shivering expectation of the flame that never comes...
...University of Pennsylvania track games which are to be held next Saturday a new method of distinguishing the competitors is to be introduced. Sashes of different colors easily distinguishable at a distance are to be worn instead of numbers...
...Latin, could be produced with profit. Greek and Latin, if they are to hold their own under present educational conditions, must be presented, not simply as fit tools for mental exercise, but as worthy of study for themselves,- as the introduction to other civilizations. To aid in this new method, no more valuable a means could well be found than the presentation of one of the best pieces of the classical drama...
...determined beforehand and even common speech has a measured cadence, a musical quality, to which rhetorical composition carefully attends, so that certain sequences are approved and others not. This difference of effect has until lately been almost entirely disregarded. And even now though many schools teach the proper method of utterance theoretically, yet it is so foreign to English modes that very rarely is a person found who knows anything about the quantitative pronunciation of Latin practically. Boys know that some syllables are long and others short, but what that difference means to the ear they can very feebly realize...
Besides these more important aspects of the play there is another not uninteresting to Latin students. The whole is given with the comparatively lately adopted 'Roman pronunciation.' Many persons are wont to ridicule this method, simply because their ears are unaccustomed to it. They prefer the mumpsimus of the ignorant priest to the sumpsimus of the Latin ritual. The sooner such persons, or any persons for that matter, become accustomed to the right way, the sooner they will find that there is no more difficulty and no less enjoyment in this than in the old barbarous jargon. For the English...