Word: precision
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If the University were to include a one hundred word precis with each course that allows Freshmen to enroll in it, and publish this precis under the course title in the catalogue, it would render a very valuable service to those who were not sure of their own qualifications or...
An "illustrated gazeteer of the world," despite its sideshow title is fairly complete description of each of the countries on the globe with especial emphasis on the recent changes in boundary and forms of government. A short history is included and the usual economic data with a precis of the...
A large share of the translation work this year was assigned in Joliet's "Precis Illustre de la Litterature Francaise", a book, which, in addition to having the monotonous, inventory-like dullness of so many literary histories, affords mediocre training in vocabulary. The chief academic crime which the French Department...
It is of little use to those who will and to those who will not continue the study of French to know that a tone of melancholy runs through. Lamartine's poems or that Vigny was an advocate of courage, or to memorize the dates of Madame de Stael's...