Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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FRENCH CONVERSATION.- Almost instantaneous system of acquiring French colloquially; no text-book; no grammar; greatest labor saving, time-saving system; an infallible method of gaining a "practical" use and full command of all the French verbs and leading idioms, within the compass of 800 words, imparting the power of "thinking" in French and fluency of expression. Trial lesson free. For particulars address Professor Etienne Lambert, 21 Worcester street, Boston...
...varsity shell which is being built at Worcester, will be provided with a unique steering device. It consists of a compass in fornt of the coxswain, whose indicator is connected by lines with the rudder, and registers every movement of it. By means of this device the coxswain will be enabled to tell if either side is pulling harder than the other, and to call on the weaker side for more work...
...humor is richer than Maclaren's and poor Jess's window in "A Window in Thrums" is a focussing element which adds immensely to the effect of Mr. Barrie's best book. "Ian Maclaren" does not force the pathetic note, but he repeats it too often perhaps within the compass of one volume; and "Beside the Bonny Briar Bush" would have added to its indubitably strong effect with a more frequent contrast of the comic and some such centering principle as that of "A Window in Thrums." Maclaren's pathos on the other hand is indescribably quick, poignant...
Obviously a misleading estimate is more to be feared where the marker must decide between many grades of narrow compass, than where he decides between few grades of broad compass. A three-grade system, for instance, would do away with the difficult distinctions between A and B and between C and D. When first adopted, it would of course be some what difficult of adjustment to the present conditions which determine the award of degrees with distinction; but in operation it would more than repay for any temporary disturbance it might cause...
...Charles Grandison. And if the text is good, the music is fully worthy of it. The composer for such a troupe has a hard task before him; he is handicapped on every hand. Few of the actors are really singers, and some of the principal ones have a compass of not exceeding five or six notes; then it stands to reason that all the music to be sung must necessarily be in the very simplest and most perspicuous rhythms, or the singers cannot learn it. This is really the most serious handicap of all: to forego all rhythms except those...