Word: says
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...venture to say that there is; but it one which demands persistent and long-continued work and hearty co-operation on the part of all who have to do with the use of English in the schools in any form and for any purpose. It requires intelligent supervision at one time, intelligent want of supervision at another time, and watchful attention constantly. It requires a quick sense of individual needs, and ready wit to provide for them as they arise...
...with freedom, but, 3, when he was set to work writing composition, he should be kept steadily at it, and at the same time should be made to take an interest in what he is doing, and should be impressed with the importance of having something to say, and of saying that something in an intelligible and a natural manner...
...progressive." Certainly if the instruction be not "systematic and progressive," the instructors ought to be criticised; but if on the contrary, as the report states, the committee do not wish to censure the instructors, the insinuation that the course in English is not "systematic and progressive" is to say the least grutuitous. We submit that if criticism be necessary, it ought not to be made by insinuation, nor through the columns of the public press...
...give the alumni something to say about the way the college shall be carried on. The overseers are their only representatives, and at present the overseers have only power to talk...
...pour mieux sauter principle. The lack of by-play was striking, albeit natural, and almost all the participants fell into the error, common to all American -born amateurs, of looking preternaturally solemn-as if the destinies of the stellar system weighed upon their shoulder-when they had nothing to say. Yet there was no sign of carelessness; every movement and position seem to have been well studied out beforehand. The thing that most detracted from the effectiveness of the play was, not so much the indistinct enunciation, as the untrained voices of the actors. Few of the voices carried well...