Word: sort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...describe Mr. Dougherty's lecture would be impossible. It was the sort of discourse over which the reporter lays down his pencil, forgets his task, and becomes absorbed in the speaker, along with the rest of the audience. Mr. Dougherty's subject was Oratory, and he used his theme to speak both of what orators are, and what they ought to be. The charm of the lecture, however, lay in the illustrations which the speaker applied to his subject. He told anecdotes in a way which convulsed his audience; he imitated the performances of orators, and would-be orators...
...upon him. To write a thing is almost to remember it; to have classifications and diversions, chapters and paragraphs in visible form on paper, is to give to them more decided shape in the mind, and therefore, greater possibility of being readily comprehended. The careful note-taker is a sort of artist, and in a page covered with paragraphs, and sub-paragraphs, a-b.c's and 1-2-3's he sees a picture, a closer scrutiny of which reveals to him the thought and life that it represents. Who knows the meaning of a painting better than...
...were prohibitionists, licencists, extremists, moderatists, Democats and Republicans. The liquor laws forbid sales of liquor to minors, on Sundays, on election day, to drunkards or men who have been seen drunk within six months, within four hundred feet of a schoolhouse. They forbid also the placing of any sort of screens in doorways or windows of saloons. The league was formed to enforce these laws, and has thus far confined itself chiefly to the first two restrictions. This has been done by prosecution, resulting in conviction, 24 cases of 26. Two years ago not one dealer in Cambridge obeyed...
...that it cannot afford to found a regular course whose aim should be to train men for journalism. None of the present English composition courses answer this need for special instruction. In effect, their purpose is to give literary finish by means of careful work, and criticism. While this sort of study is of course necessary to gain a power of clear and graceful composition, yet these courses do not afford any chance for rapid off-hand writing. The system of daily theme writing, instituted in one course, is an approach toward the proper cultivation of the ability...
...find here and there the very brilliant remarks of a very bril-dull man; comments on the author's style, questions and expressed doubts on certain passages, very wonderful and skilful corrections, humorous passages explained, jokes and puns clarified, and bits of quite original humor-of the very best sort, of course. Indeed, it is to be regretted that more men do not practice this note-making. When men read, they should put down their thoughts, not on a blank sheet of paper-for that would be selfish-but on the pages of the books that they are reading. Then...