Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seats. He comes in on a walk that borders on a run; begins to talk almost before he reaches his box, and often before he has taken off his coat or his gloves. The manner of lecturing is as varied as the individuality of the lecturer. A few sit quietly and read written lectures, some speak with few notes, and some with no notes at all. Few make any attempt at oratorical effect, and as the students' eyes are generally on the note books, such an attempt would be largely wasted. One lecturer, who is quite near sighted, lays...
...upholding Mr. Terrell's character in the strongest and instancing in proof his position in the class of '84 in college. "The suggestion that he would have been blackballed if he had been white," says Mr. Stone, "is just silly. If that club in Washington does not choose to sit down with colored men, let them say so like men and take the consequences; don't let them try to beg off by making insinuations against an honorable...
...cream of the earth, but without anything to make them clergymen but a black coat and white tie. And the bishops and deans come with women tucked under their arm; and they can't enter church but a fine powdered man runs first with a cushion for them to sit on and a warm sheepskin to keep their feet from the stones...
...fact that the officiating clergyman at morning prayers has to wear an overcoat in the pulpit is sufficient evidence that Appleton Chapel is not a warm enough place for hundreds of men to sit in each morning...
This ten has an irregular recover, and a jerkiness in all its movements. Number one, two and three do not make their motions consecutively; four continually changes his girl; five bends his arms too soon; and raises his shoulders; six should sit up higher. And make his movements continuous; seven bends his arms too soon after the catch; eight has an awkward shoulder movement; nine does not follow stroke closely, and bends his arms too soon; stroke hesitates before shooting out his arms, and bends his arms too soon. The above criticisms on the individual members of the two freshmen...