Word: downing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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A part from one or two inconsistencies both story and dialect of "Uncle Willis Skimpy and the Cotton Bale," by T. N. Buckingham are carefully and well worked out. To the Southern reader, however, the use of Satan in dialect so marked as Uncle Willis's seems an unpardonable solecism...
The Pierian Sodality, from both a musical and a financial standpoint, is now in better shape than at any time in its history. Since the beginning of the year the management has carried out the policy of retaining only such men as could regularly attend rehearsals, and although in consequence...
"The essential feature of all recent school reforms--or with a less question-begging title, school experiments or deteriorations--has been the tendency towards elective studies. We have on one side the desire to adjust the school work to the final purposes of the individual in practical life; which means...
"It is said that instruction must be adjusted to the natural instincts and tastes. The fallacy ought to be evident. All instruction which is good must be interesting--but it does not follow that all instruction which is interesting must also be good. To do what we like to do...
In order to secure this thorough and keen competition, the clubs should be as nearly as possible on the same footing. As soon as the new boat house is built the Newell club will have good quarters. In regard to boats and equipment the two clubs will have practically the...