Word: themes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...advised the public in general to spend their leisure moments in dipping into this interesting volume. And really, any one who will take his light reading in this way will find much which is not only instructive, but amusing as well, - some things, indeed, which would make a worthy theme for the Nation's satirical pen, which lately "did up" so well a certain institution in Tennessee. The first occasion for surprise the Catalogue-reader meets is, that, after the Faculty have been enumerated, the corps of College officers should be swelled by such names as those of the Superintendent...
...JUNIOR THEMES. - Theme IV. and Theme II. (corrected copy and original) will be handed in as follows: Sec. I., Jan. 23; Sec. II., Jan. 30; Sec. III., after the examinations...
...Freshman year, and even to the preparatory schools, were they what they should be. In Ethics they noticed "an appearance of slightness and vagueness which is perhaps inseparable from the mental condition of many of the young men." Forensics they discovered to be only another name for themes, and they found (what we had not realized) increasing interest in theme-writing. They commend the plan of requiring each theme to be entirely rewritten, and can see no reason why themes should not be required of Freshmen and Seniors. They think that in Political Economy the field should be enlarged...
...connection with my class was interrupted last year by what the bible terms "a temporary separation from College." I have been obliged, therefore, to make up this year some of the work which I lost by this absence, and, among other things, to write a theme on one of the following subjects: "A Personal Experience," or "A Criticism on the Late Discussion." I thought over my eventful career, but could not recall any episode which seemed likely to edify my instructor, and so, although not knowing what the "Late Discussion" was about, I decided to take the second alternative...
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