Word: etc
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...instance, what is regarded as the mechanical part of newspaper work, - the preparation of telegraphic despatches. In this branch punctuation, capitalizing, paragraphing, and the art of clear expression are the first requisites; and when one has mastered these there is so little trouble with the technicalities of heading, etc., that one who has profited by his courses in themes can with a week's practice become a fair telegraphic editor...
...editors of the Vassar Miscellany known what a host of articles headed "Vassar Indifference," "Vassar Pessimism," etc., the above sentence will cause to be showered upon their devoted heads, they would have confined their attention entirely to the discussion of Miss Alcott, Mrs. Whitney, and George Eliot...
...thoughts of AEschylus, Plato, Dante, and a crowd of lesser luminaries, cannot fail to brighten and cheer our own feeble and faint steps. With proper restrictions such a course might be made thorough and exhausting; while by a judicious admixture of the history of the writers, their influence, predecessors, etc., a more comprehensive, comparative, and reasonably scholarly survey of the fields of ancient and modern literature might be secured without the exclusive pedantry of the one and the superficial glibness of the other...
...days, June 11 and 19, have been set apart by the Faculty for outsiders to buy furniture, etc., from the students...
Princeton.- A Gun Club has been organized, with the idea of encouraging "field-shooting, etc...