Word: wording
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...They are exhorted to study and investigate. To aid in this work, the Union publishes bimonthly monographs from prominent authorities treating the religious and economic phases of the social questions, recommending courses of reading and study. No problems of the present are more pressing than these. The great word of today is "Society." The Church, recognizing this, calls upon her men, particularly the young men of the universities, to form upon these most difficult questions a wide and comprehensive judgment...
...reason for the failure of these doctrines of unity is that men will think as individuals. Thought may be regulated or suppressed, but can not be coerced. Changes in the world necessitate changes in formulae. In a word, advance means diversity...
...characters lounge, and the plot proceeds out of their mouths." The interest in the story is all in the dialogue and in the subtle shades of feeling which are connoted with great nicety. The story has a peculiar charm in that the interest in it lingers after the last word has been read. Understanding as we do that "Tangent" was written some years ago, we can not help bewailing that the author has not been more often heard from...
...shows a sad lack of just the training the very course he criticises aims to give. With splendid self-assurance, addressing himself to us anonymously, he adduces as his evidence "several cases" in which "practically" similar briefs received widely different marks. But what does he mean by the indefinite word "several"? Two "cases," or four, or six? And what by his adverb "practically"? Surely he is aware that very slight changes in brief-structure oftentimes mean great alterations in the sense and effectiveness of the argument. Again, does he not know that accidents often happen in any system...
...murmuring and scuffling may be a significant, but it is hardly a dignified, manner of expressing impatience, even if half of the class is totally unable to hear a word of what the lecturer is saying. Banging of note books on the benches and heavy stamping of feet may be indicative of the extreme disgust which inspires the class when the instructor threatens wholesale distribution of E's, but it is not gentlemanly and polite conduct which would be naturally expected from upper classmen...