Word: themes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubt the failure of recent appeals in the interest of athletics and the fate of the last prayer petition has pretty thoroughly dampened our enthusiasm for reforms. Here, however, we have a new theme, and one which appears to me to be of the greatest consequence, not only to the students, but to the general reputation of the college...
...charge of the forensice, he has done more to raise the standard of the English department than has been done since the appointments of Professors Childs and Hill. Until this year the work in senior and junior forensics has been exceedingly unprofitable and disagreeable; now, although a mere augmentative theme will not pass for a forensic, as has hitherto been the case, forensic writing in most profitable, and, if not put off until the last minute, agreeable. Dr. Royce has taken a personal interest in every student's work by setting apart certain hours when he can be consulted...
...uncomfortable as it looks, however, altho' its seat has been hardened by the weight of two or three generations. And now, tired out by this everlasting theme writing, I lie down upon it, draw my afghan over me, and seek that dreamland whither I fear my reader has long since preceded...
Owing to a mistake of the printers, Sophomore Theme V will not be "a criticism of Sterne, Goldsmith, and c., but "of some work" of the above authors...
...describe Mr. Dougherty's lecture would be impossible. It was the sort of discourse over which the reporter lays down his pencil, forgets his task, and becomes absorbed in the speaker, along with the rest of the audience. Mr. Dougherty's subject was Oratory, and he used his theme to speak both of what orators are, and what they ought to be. The charm of the lecture, however, lay in the illustrations which the speaker applied to his subject. He told anecdotes in a way which convulsed his audience; he imitated the performances of orators, and would-be orators...