Word: styling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...kind, as, in addition to the bare mention of contests, which is, however, very full, we notice an able article on the use of the sliding seat; also some instructive hints on Athletics, in regard to choice and plan of grounds and best methods of promoting good style and form; while the editor rehearses the main events of the last season, with a tolerably good account of the college regatta. A directory of the names of all competitors will be found valuable, and we recommend the book as a useful one for reference. The price is one dollar...
...BENT & BUSH'S advertisement for spring style of hat. The "Harvard Hat" has met with great success...
...performance of more than average merit. The Tenor sang with especial feeling and spirit, and altogether, his was open to less unfavorable criticism than any other performance of the evening. Miss M. K. Shackford, in the delivery of her principal arias, was admirable both in tone and style. The chorus showed excellent training, and deserves a passing compliment...
Once in the Rhetoric class one is qualified to read with profit the best French authors; but nothing is read except what has particular reference to rhetoric or style; as, for example, the Pensees de Pascal, the Oraisons Funebres of Bossuet, the works of Fenelon upon Eloquence, La Bruyere, the Fables de la Fontaine, the classical productions of Racine, Corneille, and Moliere, etc. At the same time they study, in Latin, Cicero's treatises on Rhetoric, Tacitus, Virgil, Horace, and extracts from Lucretius; in Greek, Thucydides, the orations of Demosthenes, Sophocles, and parts of Aristophanes. Besides, students are required...
Among young contributors writings of superior merit in the use of language cannot be expected; style is formed by long-continued practice; and since witty productions depend to a considerable extent upon the use of language and upon style, it cannot be expected that those who are but tyros in the art of writing will find their forte in humor...