Word: mannerizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attention in the arrangement of the curriculum to the exact and comprehensive study of our mother tongue. However this may be, it is certain that the department of modern English and of theme instruction in the college is very much in need of reorganizing or of strengthening in some manner or other. The prescribed courses given in this department have never been popular, and according to the common opinion have met with a very slight success in accomplishing the end aimed at. What plan the college can adopt to improve it in this respect it is difficult to suggest...
...society to spread its principles by having men who practiced these principles, and whom the mass of students were bound to respect, to come to Cambridge and address public meetings of the society. We do not wish to conduct ourselves as fanatics, but in a manly, dignified manner deport ourselves according to the principles we represent, so as to obtain at least the respect and good will of the majority of our fellow students...
...repeat that we think that no one need be in the least discouraged by Saturday's game, but on the contrary they should feel very great confidence in the team of 1883, and express it in a substantial manner both by their presence at practice and by subscribing liberally to the funds of the Foot-Ball Association...
...bring forward all available candidates in the effort to win this trophy. This rivalry between the classes would increase the number of entries and have a direct bearing upon the success of all the meetings of the association. It would benefit the H. A. A. in somewhat the same manner, although in a modified degree, as the class races benefit the boat club as the university crew. While we do not believe in any hard feeling existing between classes of the same college, we think this project would afford abundant opportunity for fostering that old time class feeling which formerly...
They are taking photographs in Paris that actually wink. This leads to the hope that they will eventually produce them in such a manner that they will go out in an emergency and borrow five dollars...