Word: lessons
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...ever paint? or rather, did you ever try? If not, come with me into our studio in S. 32, and take your first lesson, for I'm sure you will enjoy it. But why do you delay on the staircase? Don't be afraid if you are surprised, for you see only the material of that gigantic experiment for educating womankind. Come along, they have all gone out. This is not co-education, but after-co-education. Well, this is the place. Sit at the desk beside me, as Ralph is sick of the measles and will be away...
...reducing the time for each member to ten minutes instead of fifteen; for elocution is not a study which can be pursued like history or political economy. A lecture on the general principles, though perhaps interesting, would not be of much use. Instruction in elocution resembles more nearly a lesson in singing or music; instruction by sections is almost useless compared with individual instruction. What we need is not a reduction in the time allowed to each man, but an increase in the number of instructors...
Alas! reformers are bound to get hard knocks in this world, and at the very next recitation, Professor X, in assigning the lesson, told us that he had reserved eleven more books at the Library, which we should find interesting. Evils such as these can't be cured by a valentine...