Word: question
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...This question was too deep to solve; but the truth remained that every one collects something. Little boys collect birds' eggs; little girls, postage-stamps; theatre-goers, photographs; young ladies collect gentlemen's cards; older gentlemen collect tracts and MSS.; middle-aged ladies have a perfect mania for old lace and delft; and, finally, tradesmen are crazy to collect bills...
...open during my absence, and had left my chum in the room. Imagine my horror, when the first thing it reeled off was, "If you don't get out of this room, you d -- poco - " I hastily awoke from my reverie, and declared that autophones were out of the question. It would n't do to subject one's conversation to so accurate a recorder...
...Professor in this department complacently announces that it is his intention to reduce every mark obtained at that examination from ten to fifteen per cent. Without considering the question of whether the marks were too high it seems to me a most unwarranted proceeding to reduce them at this late date. The injustice of this measure is so evident, as was shown in the Advocate, that it is strange that the Faculty should allow it. If a Professor is to have the power of reducing marks six months after they have been announced, and when it is too late...
...object of these words is not to find fault with the work of this year, but to show what another year may be made to bring forth. Mr. Child is beyond doubt in the right about the elocution question; but if he would make it clearly understood that good reading is a desideratum in his classes, and if the students would endeavor simply to pay attention and to be interested (if they did this they would be obliged to read well), then both the advantage and the enjoyment of the course would be doubled. It is somnambulistic and apathetic reading...
...verse can appreciate; and naturally unintelligible to any whose ears have been attuned to the jingle of the Mother-Goose School." At the risk of being included among the disciples of "the Mother-Goose School," we confess to having been utterly puzzled by the metre of the poem in question. It is, as the author tells us, "suggested by Mrs. Browning's 'A Portrait,'" which is written in stanzas of three verses each, each line consisting of our trochees. As the stanzas in "A Counterfeit Presentment" are arranged in the same manner, and as those verses which we succeeded...