Word: mannerizes
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...having three set opening speeches. The forms of the Harvard speeches showed a certain emotional quality, not overdone, which made the argument persuasive. The Yale speakers had an entirely different style lacking perhaps in fervor of voice, but making up for this in a give and take direct manner. It was simply a question which style of speaking was preferred for representing different types...
...meeting will be held in the lecture room of Phillips Brooks House this afternoon at 4.30 for the purpose of bringing to gether in an informal manner any men who are interested in various means for social service, boys' clubs in particular. There will be short talks by Dr. Peabody, Mr. Hubbard, of the North End Union, and others...
...chose themes of an essentially poetic nature. The leader and best example of this school was Chateaubriand. Although his writings treat of historical or philosophical subjects, they indicate a poetic cast of mind. In common with Beaudelaire, he gave expression to all his hopes, sympathies and ideas in a manner which reveals the true poet...
...leading articles on political and economic subjects, had given him a grasp of these subjects, and a hold upon the living world, which no amount of reading could have supplied. It had cultivated his powers of thinking and of presenting his thoughts in a clear, orderly, and convincing manner, and had exercised and developed his natural gifts--coolness of judgment, breadth of view, and temperance in expression...
This year in addition to the usual spring handicap for a high grade shot gun, and the interclass match, there is a system of rewarding good scores by "qualification pins" in somewhat the same manner as the marksman badges in the militia. A "second class" pin is given for three scores of 20 out of 25 or "first class" for two scores of 15 straight and an "expert" pin for 25 straight. These pins are made in the shape of clay birds and are marked with the initials of the club...