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It will not divulge the source of citations. And in most cases it has in its own possession only a general complaint. On these bases it prescribes extra rhetorical training. If the Committee does not know the particular fault of the student, the work is entirely at random. If it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KEEPING UP ON RHETORIC | 3/19/1926 | See Source »

This shift of weight from chiefly rhetorical training to an introduction to literature is significant in its substitution of college education proper for preparatory school features. It presupposes more scholastic training in composition and prepares to make its further training in composition more a reflection of literary appreciation than the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW REGIME FOR ENGLISH A | 2/19/1926 | See Source »

Well pleased at this rhetorical flourish, Lady Astor descended from the platform prepared to make her exit from the hall in quiet triumph. Instead, unemployed males surged about her car, demanding that she fulfill her pledge-valiantly attempting to call the Rt. Hon. Lady's bluff. Upon reaching home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bluffs Called | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

Artist Sims paints what he sees with glittering fluency. A. Lys Baldry once declared that "few present-day painters equal him in acuteness of observation, fewer-still surpass him in mechanical skill. Although Mr. Sims' work somewhat reflects the rhetorical stiffness of Mr. Baldry's sentence, that is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Sims | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

Then, recalling that all these evils have their defenders, the report became at last rhetorical:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Long Hair | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

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