Word: off-handedly
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...club will meet for rifle practice at Walnut Hill, on Saturday next, leaving 12 Hilton at 1.30 o'clock, sharp. Any rifle may be used and the shooting will be at 200 yards off-hand. All intending to go will hand in their names at the above rooms between 4 and 6 today...
...required class rhetorical work at Yale is one essay and rhetoric in the freshman year, eight essays in the sophomore year, four or five written debates in the Junior year, and four or five written exercises and off-hand speeches in the senior year. [Oberlin Review...
...observed as strictly as practicable, with cabinet members on the floor for questioning, and due notice of future action and the routine order as in parliament. There are many good points in this custom, for a familiarity with modes of procedure is learned in practice, and the training for off-hand speaking is excellent, as every member is put on his mettle, and while likely to be judged unsparingly, if he has ability it is quickly appreciated. Again the reproduction in the petty theatre of the rivalry of the leading parties brings the vital issues at stake in a simplified...
...admitted that the comparative poverty of most of our colleges puts them behind West Point. But the heiniousness of teaching a scientific subject without the use of any specified text-book we fear will not be fully appreciated by the leading educators and teachers of the land. The careless, off-hand way in which these military gentlemen wave aside the elective system as admittedly inferior and second-rate, is quite refreshing. Harvard surely must blush for her shortcomings...
...Crimson, in its second editorial, after having disposed of the author's accusations off-hand, continues, rather awkwardly: "It is almost as much to say that college men are fools, to say that they do not elect men into the Glee Club for ability to sing, or into editorship for inability to write." Now, unfortunately, all college men are not distinguished for wisdom, and some are, perhaps, fools, hence it is not surprising that mistakes do sometimes occur, as they have already occurred. We do not wish to assert that men who cannot sing are chosen members of the Glee...