Word: generalizes
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...order, the light shed by the single tallow candle was unfortunately found not bright enough to enable any one of the Professors to read their parts, and, as no oration had been assigned for the evening, and extempore speaking is not approved by them, it was evident that no general business could be transacted...
...member of the Hasty Pudding and Porcellian Clubs; and as one of his classmates has said, all that distinguished him while in college, from his fellows, was his knowledge of literature and his skill in boxing. As soon as he entered the Law School he attracted general attention by his industry and knowledge. Some time after he became a practising lawyer he was persuaded, much against his inclination, to enter politics, and since then his fame, which began with his oration on the Fourth of July, 1845, has spread over our own country and Europe. Many proofs has he given...
...written notes, particularly as to the heads of arguments and other matters of the kind; if we pay special attention to whatever memorizing occurs in any of our work, particularly with a view to retaining the matter permanently, by rehearsing it at intervals of a few weeks; if in general we recall and fix in our minds what is tending to slip away, so as to remember more, even though learning less; and finally, if we remember that what is slowest learned is slowest forgotten, and so give more attention to every-day work and less to cramming, we shall...
...word are separated by a practised ear. The signs are combined according to easily understood principles, and abbreviations, such as small circles and hooks, are added in so methodical a way that the mind is not burdened by their remembrance, but accepts them readily as developments of a general plan. The only arbitrary marks are the "word-signs," which stand for about a hundred of our commonest words, since it is a fact not widely known that one half of all the English spoken and written consists of repetitions of these hundred words...
THOUGH every day brings short-hand writing more into use, yet the notions held concerning it, both by the general public and by men in college, are still very erroneous. For the latter these mistaken ideas are particularly unfortunate, since short-hand can hardly be of greater benefit to any one than to those studying for a profession and constantly requiring notes of important lectures, in which each sentence contains a fact or suggestion not to be lost without injury. The life of professional men, too, presents many opportunities when the employment of a mode of writing four or five...