Word: mannerizes
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...skillfully amplified for the purpose of the stage. Nothing could be simpler than the story of "Alpine Roses," although the intrigue which runs through the play is not so simple. (Here follows a short account of the plot). This play offers a charming contrast between a frank and honest manner of life, and a life which is heartless, formal and shallow. The contrast is made skillfully. The characters in "Alpine Roses" are brightly shown. The scenes are coherent and interesting. The action, though a trifle slow in the second scene, is elsewhere quick and effective. The whole play awakens sympathy...
...Haven has very few points of similarity with the system at any other college. As it is it must be considered an excellent thing that so large a proportion of the present senior class at Yale has had the courage to hold to and express its convictions in this manner. It is not likely that the end of the discussion has been reached. It is probably just beginning...
Most of Sumner's classmates did not anticipate for him more than ordinary success in life. But those who knew him best were impressed with his love for books and with something in his tone and manner which gave assurance that he would make his mark. This feeling grew stronger towards the end of his college course and especially after the announcement of his successful competition for a Bowdoin prize. Sumner took but little recreation, much preferring his room and books. He took no part in athletic sports and did not go into society, but was very social, enjoyed pleasantry...
...faculty of the Berlin University, written in 1869, to the effect that the modern languages do not furnish a substitute for the ancient languages, "for, since as a rule the only thing aimed at in their study is a certain facility of use, they cannot serve in equal manner as an instrument of culture." In this quotation, I said, the keynote of the whole question was struck. We must keep the ancient languages in our colleges as they furnish the only successful instrument of culture. I do not believe that this aspect of the question has been sufficiently studied, particularly...
...inter-collegiate athletic contests the faculty wish to have them done "decently and in order;" to be managed in such manner as not to interfere materially with the more serious duties of the student, or greatly disturb the ordinarily placid routine of undergraduate life; to make them incidents, not epochs, in college history; to limit their preliminary training within reasonable bounds as to expenditure, either of time or money; to totally abandon the employment of professional trainers or assistants; to avoid undue notoriety and its attendant unhealthy excitement; to forswear all gate-money speculation-in short, to conduct these contests...