Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...instructor in Greek 3, however, especially encouraged men to take the course again, and so finish reading Herodotus. The course has been shown to be perhaps the most profitable Greek course for the majority of men, - those who wish to attain facility in reading Greek rather than to master technicalities which they must soon forget, unless they expect to teach. Now the Echo's assumption, that this facility is gained in the work of two hours a week for some thirty weeks, implies a facility of acquiring the Greek language which few (probably none) have. Professor White certainly makes...
...master Plato's tongue. Now, if you please...
...upon them. As the writer says, those who do not engage their time very early in the term are even deprived of the benefit of fifteen minutes' instruction a week. Of course no very great progress can be made in such limited time, even with the best master, but we cannot see that the section system would be an improvement, as instruction to a section of six for an hour is the same as reducing the time for each member to ten minutes instead of fifteen; for elocution is not a study which can be pursued like history or political...
...special function of all these, and who invented the nomenclature, is not clearly known. About the Discursive only is there no doubt. The originator was Paleontologus. This man, as his name denotes, was a Greek. He came to England, and adopted it as his paternal land, but could never master the language. There was one word which offered a special difficulty. He could never pronounce Niagara, like other people, but called it to the last Ni-a-ga-ra. However, he is best known as the inventor and representative of the Discursive Faculty, and used often to verify the verses...
...their meeting of Monday last, the class of '82 voted to have a supper Wednesday, March 10. Messrs. F. M. Stone, Waring, and Storer were appointed an executive committee; Mr. Pendleton, chorister; Mr. Foster, poet; Mr. Panin, orator; Mr. Edgerly, toast-master; and Messrs. Pendleton, Wister, and Burton, a committee to prepare the class songs...