Word: wording
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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GENTLEMEN: - Seven years in newspaper land taught me the probable futility of a man's replying in print to anything that anybody may say about him, but so many persons have "committed false report" concerning the exclusion of the public from my lectures that a word of explanation may do more good than harm...
...them; and should it be made evident that they prefer lectures open to the public I would gladly act upon their preference. But a miscellaneous audience would, I think, take from the freedom and friendliness which are the very life of the spoken (as distinguished from the written) word...
...word temperance, said Mr. Garrison, covers everything to the verge of intoxication. The difference between temperance and total abstinence is that the former is using in a moderate degree what is beneficial, while the latter is doing without what is harmful...
Many freshmen, especially those who are so happily advanced as to have fair command of written speech, are disposed to regard English A as an arbitrary infliction on the part of the heads of the department. Were these men aware of the many specimens of outrageous word structure (it is nothing more) furnished by the entrance examination papers, they would change their opinion. Under present conditions, English A must be regarded as a necessity, though a very disagreeable one, and somewhat shameful. At once, then, the question arises whether the conditions might not be changed; whether boys might...
...above couples not wishing to enter this tournament will please send word at once to 21 Thayer...