Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...playing. This, together with Cowen's weakness at guard, Storer's superiority as a tackle rather than an end, Gilman's adaptability, and Hardwick's experience at the wing position, are the reasons for the shift. Today's contest, the first real try- out of the new order, will spell its success or failure...
...have on professional tutoring. As, however, my concern here is with tutoring only, and as I have no desire to trespass upon the preserves of the pedagogical theorists, I need say regarding the grading merely that a piece-meal disposal of a course does not seem to me to spell scholarship. Regarding the second point, however, I can deal with facts, and facts with which, after some twenty odd years' experience as a tutor, I may claim to be tolerably well acquainted. As a professional tutor who is not a very ardent believer in "pernicious" tutoring, even as a "necessary...
...with strict injunction to attend the meeting and vote for the "right candidate," resulted more often than not in an election well calculated, sooner or later, to foster the elements of discord. To operate successfully a regular "railroading" scheme under the old system required only three or four intelligent "spell-binders," backed by as few as 50 voters well trained in concerted cheering. Time and again the many, who could know very little of the respective candidates' merits, were won over merely by the volume of sound raised as each nominee's name was called. We venture to say that...
...spell of the West, however, was too powerful for him, and instead of settling down as a lawyer in Philadelphia as he had intended, he spent most of his time in Wyoming and Arizona; and in 1891 took up literary work as a profession. In 1896 he published the first book which brought him notice, "Red Men and White," a collection of short stories of the West, and from that time until his death he steadily continued to write...
Just at this time every year, the undergraduate feels that he is entitled to a breathing spell as far as his academic work is concerned. Hour examinations are over, and there is a general sentiment that no more really strenuous study is required until after the Christmas vacation. Mid-year examinations at present are likely to appear very distant and unimportant to the work of tomorrow and next week...