Word: mannerizes
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...wish to be allowed to apologize through your columns. I feel that the criticism is just but I wish to say that my conduct at the time was wholly the result of thoughtlessness. Nothing can be farther from my desire or intention than to act in an ungentlemanly manner. I hope therefore that the students will pardon me for the offence which I committed...
...some time ago, a complaint concerning English VII. The complaint was directed at the method at present pursued in the teaching of the course. Any literary course which is intended to cover so long a period as either English VII or VIII, cannot be safely conducted in the same manner as a course which restricts its work to a close examination of a few of the works of one man. Whatever may be said against the lecture system, there can be no doubt that it is the only system which can be successfully pursued in a course which attempts...
There will be no dues or assessments whatever to the association in future. Any student can bring a stranger on to the courts provided he pays for him in the usual manner, which shall be as follows...
...charge of five cents will be levied from each man playing on the old courts. This charge enables him to play continuously, as long as he wishes. (Leaving the grounds for a short interval will be overlooked). In the same manner a charge of ten cents will be livied on men using the new clay courts. Again, on the grass courts the charges will be fifteen cents for each player, if engaged in a four-handed game, and twenty cents if engaged in a two-handed game. These charges will not seem large in view of our new advantages...
...break away from the conductor's time: it was otherwise well done, the delicate runs in particular being evenly, and carefully brought out. The symphony was, on the whole, very well played. It must be confessed however, that the first movement, the Vivace, was taken in a rather tame manner, and the Allegretto lacked somewhat that impressiveness with which it should be characterized; the last two movements were interpreted in a manner quite up to the usual standard of the orchestra,- and when it is at its best, there is very little to be complained...