Word: speak
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Game" and "A Thousand a Year" at the Town Hall, Jamaica Plain, April 14, and again at Union Hall, Cambridgeport, April 16. The audiences at both places were large and quite generous in their applause, - rewards well merited by the excellence of the performance. We have not space to speak at length of the plays, but we must pay a passing compliment to Mr. McMillan, who took the leading parts in both, and distinguished them by so marked a difference of conception and style that a fresh actor seemed to walk upon the stage in the second play, - a difficult...
...students who are acquainted with the courses would give a short criticism of such as are not likely to be understood by others, so that those who choose them may do so with the advantage of having their experience to guide them. The difficulty of which we speak becomes more apparent after the electives are commenced in the following year, when it is discovered, after it is too late to change, and to the sorrow of both instructor and student, that the latter has mistaken the character of the course, and that the elective is not one from which...
...consequently but little time has been devoted to Latin or Greek, a very good knowledge of some one of the modern languages is demanded of all candidates. You are now familiar with the plan of the studies pursued in the colleges and lyceums. In my next I shall speak of the life led in these institutions, of their interior organization, and the regime to which the students are subjected...
...both social and political, of different countries, moral science, and business in every form, - such are a few of the departments necessary for a lawyer to be acquainted with. To those distrusting their ability to make a success at the bar, feeling a want of eloquence and facility in speaking, he gives a word of encouragement. "Eloquence is not to be got by mere high-sounding words. It often makes itself felt in the plainest and homeliest terms, speaking from the heart to the heart." The ready speaker who indulges in rhetorical displays produces as much effect as fire-works...
...transferred to a city, if he is a capable man, instead of remaining in some small locality; never can he pass the barrier which retains him in primary teaching and come to secondary teaching. With you the one runs naturally into the other; the second is, so to speak, but the prolongation of the first. With us there is no connection between them, no transition from one to the other. This involves a twofold inconvenience. First, for the scholar; if his aptit des show themselves tardily, and he then wishes to pursue classical studies, he is obliged to begin...