Word: off-handedly
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...extracts from themes have not only an interest of originality, but they serve better than a concocted model to express the point at issue. This freedom, this off-hand manner, is the book's greatest charm, and one that will attract even the casual reader. As a guide for teachers no work could be more desirable; for it strives to suggest rather than to urge the system it describes. A wide use of this book in preparatory schools ought to result shortly in a much higher standard of writing among Freshmen in general and among those who anticipate English...
...well above the average. An unsigned sketch parading under the deceptive title "College Kodaks," produces a very full and clear impression in a page of remarkably simple almost matter of fact narrative. "To Say the Least: Ungentlemanly," by H. Williams, Jr., is much in the Stockton vein. The off-hand rapidity of the action is most admirably suited to its impossible but amusing plot. "By Two," by F. M. Alger, is as good as it is hard to characterize...
...Harvard speakers are C. Grilk '98, J. A. Keith Sp., W. Morse '99 and P. G. Carleton '99, alternate. The preparation so far has been in the reading and in daily off-hand rebuttal practice in Sanders Theatre. The final preparation of the speeches is now being attended...
...make-up of the Yale team this year insures a greater amount of rebuttal work than usual, as Clark and Studinski are exceptional men in this particular. While Harvard has virtually the affirmative side, her position is really a negative one and calls for a great amount of off-hand refutation...
...Graduates' Magazine for December deplores the undergraduate's ignorance of the "venerable associations" which cluster around the University. "How many of the students" he asks, "know when Hollis and Stoughton, and Holworthy were built, or what the men did for whom they were named? . . . How many can tell, off-hand, where John Harvard died? Do they ever realize that British troops were quartered in Massachusetts and Harvard, that Washington probably visited those buildings many times, that Lafayette was received by President Kirkland on the steps of University? . . . Certainly much interest and charm, and much stimulus to high thought and noble...