Word: tomes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statue of William Tell, which stands in the Pare de Montbenon. My appearance must have been terrible during those terrible moments, for the people who came to inspect the monument scrutinized me with suspicion, almost with alarm. Oh! if De Dominicis had come to preach his moral lessons tome there how gladly I would have laid him out! . . . "I have received your
There are various ways of "teaching" art. One way is to provide a student with a large tome in which the pictures of various masters are reproduced in color, with a tabloid criticism appended at the bottom of the page. The students regard the picture, memorize the criticism. Once or twice a week they listen to a lecture by a professor and take notes...
...examinations for secondary schools similar to the College Entrance Examinations already well established in many colleges. Eighteen schools entered the arrangement: Andover, Arden, Bancroft, Buckley, Chestnut Hill, Exeter, Fessenden, Groton, Hill, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Loomis Institute, Mil ton Academy, Pomfret, Rivers, St. George's, St. Paul's (Concord), Tome Institute...
...fury. Miss Kennedy, possibly because she is English, showed her mettle. The Author. Margaret Kennedy, now 29, has shown her mettle before. In school, her poetry took a prize; but she took to prose when Poet Yeats scribbled "alpha minus" after her best effort. She compassed a weighty historical tome in 1922, after which fiction-writing seemed like child's play. The Ladies of Lyndon was one of the bright features...
...what, for example, shall constitute "a year of Latin" for entrance to the fifth year before college. The 18 schools concerned: Andover, Arden, Bancroft, Buckley, Chestnut Hill, Exeter, Fessenden, Groton, Hill, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Loomis Institute, Milton Academy, Pomfret, Rivers, St. George's, St. Paul's (Concord), Tome Institute...