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...desk after the three hours it takes to read it from cover to cover, the first reaction should be a feeling of gratitude to Miss Hahn. She has removed the false whiskers from a topic of major interest, and revealed it glittering and elegant, a general mode, no less. We are not maintaining, however, that there won't be some who will feel ethically unbuttoned by this scientific document, some who will consider it too elementary, and a few who will be eighteen-ninety, relegating it hastily to the Nokol fireplace. But the tract will continue to speak firmly...
...time of the establishment of the Boylston Speaking Prize in 1817 Harvard was a small community in which oratorical vociferations were much in vogue. Even up to 1915, when the Lee Wade Prize was established, strutting and fretting across the platform was still a la mode, although on the decline. But these, along with other hoary traditions, have all but succumbed to the ravages of time. Not only has formal speaking suffered but dramatics and debating have progressed far along the path towards oblivion...
...argument against this mode of gastronomic procedure was not wholly because of its anglophile coloring. The House Plan is admittedly an experimentation, and one which includes a definite intermingling of teachers with pupils. Besides being an anachronism in America, the whole idea of placing such a definite barrier between the tutors and students is distinctly alien to the success of the Plan. The objections to the High Table are just as applicable whether it is English or American. Everyone is well-enough satisfied at the first solution of this relatively unimportant detail. The House Plan means a break with many...
...obscure the meaning. Still there are a few-'Gas main' (Rogas manat), 'Stick-a-lips' (Aste Calypso) are good examples; the rest are puns of a single word like felix and omnibus. In this connection it is interesting to note that the centenary of this mode of public conveyance is marked by the recurrence of the same pun as was employed...
...Said he: "Somebody, it seems, gave it out that I lov'd Ladies; and then everybody presented me their Ladies (or the Ladies presented themselves) to be embraced, that is to have their Necks kissed. For as to kissing of Lips or Cheeks it is not the Mode here; the first is reckon'd rude, and the other may rub off the Paint." At 78, his great task accomplished, he sailed for home, kept himself occupied on the voyage by writing two treatises: The Causes & Cures of Smoky Chimneys, Description of a New Stove for Burning of Pitcoal...