Word: tention
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given in written English; that to this end they recommend that the number of exercises in written English be increased, and that every effort be made to render the course of instruction in written English more systematic and progressive." It is difficult to see how with "no in tention of criticising" the English department, the committee could recommend that "every effort be made to render the course of instruction in written English more systematic and progressive." Certainly if the instruction be not "systematic and progressive," the instructors ought to be criticised; but if on the contrary, as the report states...
...unimpassioned, meditative character. Chambers says that "it was man of taste and letters, as a patron of artists and authors, and as the friend of almost every illustrious man that has graced our annals for the last half century or more, that Mr. Rogers chiefly engaged the public at tention." His colleges works have been published in various forms...