Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even the Archbishop of Canterbury comprises 59 per cent of water,"--a statement of fact which gives an idea of the humorous touch and the lively style that make the reading of Sir Arthur Shipley's new elementary biology a stimulating exercise. He calls his little book "Life," prefaces his chapters with apt quotations from the poets, and explains with an unusual combination of scientific accuracy and literary flavor all about protoplasm, cells, feeding, the soil and the sap, food, digestion, respiration, movement, and reproduction, in plants and animals...
Changing from a rowing system to which men have been accustomed for years in preparatory school and college is not a matter of a few months, but almost of years. By the close of the fall season, many of the Harvard men were rowing a style which could not be classified. They were beginning to utilize to better advantage their leg power, but the habit of leaning far forward and backward was not easily to be broken...
...announcement that the Freshman triangular debaters will employ the "English style" of speaking is at once a tribute to the brilliancy of the Oxford teams that have met the University in the past two years and an evidence of their lasting influence. Until the Oxonians demonstrated that a debate could be both pertinent and entertaining, interest in debating and discussion at the University gradually deadened under the crushing weight to crystallized formalism. That the Council is attempting to train a new college generation of speakers in the English parliamentarian is perhaps the best indication of renewed spirit and vision...
...life story of a man who satisfied his wanderlust in the Army. He took a hand at San Juan, in Luzon, in the Boxer Rebellion, in an Honduran revolution, in the Great War, and tells about them all as his personal adventures. The book has no style except the lingo of the doughboy, but it makes a flowing tale that carries the reader off forgetfully, through innumerable adventures, human, dangerous, unbelievable, yet convincingly real...
...debaters of the three colleges have agreed to introduce at this year's University Triangular, on March 21, a form of debating new to American colleges. The old formality is to be greatly reduced in favor of the English style of speaking. Statistics and other equally uninteresting matter will be eliminated so far as seems practicable...