Word: speak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...HOMES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR.It is one thing to teach good grammar, and another thing to speak it. The President of one of our New England colleges, in a lecture delivered in this city last Sunday, said : "Here then is the consequences in the worst possible form of it." And again : "Not only is this so manifested as that philosophers see it." He also spoke of India as "a province that is not profitable except there shall be the cultivation of opinion." He was probably in a condition similar to that of the actor who knew his part so well that...
...Lovering it is hardly necessary to speak. His play throughout has been simply wonderful. He is probably as fine an out-fielder as there is in the country, and his perfect record on second speaks well for his ability as an in-fielder. He has improved greatly at the bat and is now one of the surest batters in the nine, while his base running is sharp and quick...
...that college bears upon a singular part of our modern educational training. The protest was moderate and strong in both meaning and language, and deserves careful attention from every parent. The author (who had herself won the first place in the graduating class and was therefore entitled to speak) urged that the system of placing "honors" at graduation before the pupil at her entrance into school as the chief object of her endeavors "induced a nervous strain incompatible with her highest physical or mental development. The system was not a correct index to either ability or industry...
...faculty, having given the requisite consideration to the petition of the senior class that at the following commencement none of its members be appointed to speak, but that the duty be assigned to the alumnae...
...voted, That the faculty see no satisfactory reason for selecting speakers except from such as are candidates for a degree, and that in making selections, as all the candidates cannot speak, in their opinion the most practicable method is according to the principles stated in their action of February 26, namely, that appointments be given according to the student's record of general scholarship, her literary ability and her conduct during her college course...