Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...courses of instruction in the university, provided that they satisfy the appropriate faculty of their fitness to pursue the particular courses which they elect. The several faculties have the right to deprive any such student of his privileges if he abuse them or fail to use them. It was also resolved that the privileges extended to special students being readily subject to abuse the overseers recommend that these privileges be very sparingly granted that great care be taken in admitting special students to the various courses of the university, and that the several faculties use every effort to maintain...
...amazed me year after year. In spelling, punctuation, and grammar, some of the essays are a little worse than the mass, and some a great deal better; but in other respects there is dead-level, unvaried by a fresh thought or an individual expression. Almost all the writers use the same common-place vocabulary-a very small one-in the same confused way. One year, after reading 200 or 300 compositions on "The Story of the Tempest," I found myself in such profound ignorance of both plot and characters that I had to read the play to set myself right...
...venture to say that there is; but it one which demands persistent and long-continued work and hearty co-operation on the part of all who have to do with the use of English in the schools in any form and for any purpose. It requires intelligent supervision at one time, intelligent want of supervision at another time, and watchful attention constantly. It requires a quick sense of individual needs, and ready wit to provide for them as they arise...
...plan is briefly as follows: 1, I would begin as early as possible to overcome the mechanical difficulties of writing, and would use all practicable means and all possible opportunities to do so; 2, I would not frighten a boy with "compositions," so-called, till he could form his sentences with tolerable correctness, and use his pen with freedom, but, 3, when he was set to work writing composition, he should be kept steadily at it, and at the same time should be made to take an interest in what he is doing, and should be impressed with the importance...
German III, Dr, Francke wishes to notify men taking German III that they will be allowed to use their German lexicons in the examination room...