Word: wade
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...blackboard, and the student pronounces it after him until it is firmly fixed. Great delicacy of ear and eye is required, and much mechanical drudgery must be endured. Patience is the first requisite. No interpreter is needed until some advance has been made, and even then Sir Thomas Wade's Progressive Course in Colloquial and Documentary Chinese will go far towards supplying his place. A knowledge of Chinese sufficient for business purposes may be acquired in two, or at most, three years; and one of the subscribers to our professorship acquired it in six months. To obtain a mastery...
Through which I seem to wade...
...accordance with an old custom of the society, held its annual supper last Friday evening at Young's Hotel. Thirty-three members were present, including representatives from the first ten from '82; and the committee, Mr. F. S. G. Reed, Mr. J. C. Rolfe, and Mr. W. H. Wade, left nothing undone which could make the evening enjoyable...
...songs, "The First Ten from '82," responded to by Mr. W. C. Wait, '82; "The Class of '81," by Mr. H. E. Seaver; "The Class of '82," by Mr. J. McG. Foster, '82; "The Class Crew," by Mr. C. M. Hemenway; "The Supper Committee," by Mr. W. H. Wade; "The Athenaeum Actors," by Mr. J. L. Paine; "The Standing Committee," by Mr. W. L. Worcester; "The Editors," by Mr. A. O. Jameson; "The Constitution," by Mr. E. A. Whitman; "The Ladies," by Mr. W. C. Lane...
...knowledge of books is as extensive as his knowledge of men. Mention a novel, an essay, or a poem, and he will tell you he found it rather dull; is surprised that you can wade through it. If you have read the book yourself you will discover, with the aid of a few questions, that he has never read anything in the book but the title. The trouble is, we are apt to be gulled by these impostors, and never think of putting them to a test. They are caught, however, in their own nets sometimes. The story...