Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...draw a large audience. Last night Sever 11 was crowded with an audience which was highly entertained by the lecturer's sketch of the beginnings of California. The amusing features of the early occupation of the state were touched upon very humorously. The lecture, which was read from manuscript, lasted about an hour and a quarter...
...what it is doesn't matter. The main object is to have some freshly written pages on the table. When this is accomplished the adventurer stealthily unbuttons his coat, and at a favorable moment draws his "cribbed" papers from his bosom and pushes them in among the mass of manuscript before him. When this is done the rest of his task is easy. He picks up the list of questions and with the aid of his cribs answers such of them as he can, and when the examination is ended hands in his answers to the waiting professors and coolly...
...colleges have to spend much of their time and strength in teaching the A B C of their mother tongue to young men of 20-work disagreeable in itself, and often barren of result. Every year Harvard graduates a certain number of men-some of them high scholars-whose manuscript would disgrace a boy of 12; and yet the college cannot be blamed, for she can hardly be expected to conduct an infant school for adults...
...read written lectures, some speak with few notes, and some with no notes at all. Few make any attempt at oratorical effect, and as the students' eyes are generally on the note books, such an attempt would be largely wasted. One lecturer, who is quite near sighted, lays his manuscript on the high desk before him, over which only the top of his head is visible to the students, and reads steadily, or putting his hands in his pockets lounges back in his pulpit, where he is only visible to those at the side. Almost all the lecturers drop...
...Gosse, for the greater part of the time, talked in an informal way about his edition of Gray's works and the "finds" he had made of Gray's works, and the "finds" he had made of Gray's manuscript. "Chips from a Cambridge workshop," was what Mr. Gosse called this informal talk. Mr. John Morley. He said, had started to write up Gray for the English Men of Letter series, but had bequeathed his literary work to Mr. Gosse. From this beginning in the Men of Letters Series, Mr. Gosse betook himself to editing the works of Gray...