Word: rhetoricical
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One step in the right direction has been taken : there is an examination in English composition required for admission to Harvard College. But we must go a great deal farther than that. If the Freshman year must consist of required studies, let rhetoric be transferred from the Sophomore year, and...
But our system as it now stands is very deficient. Even after the first year there are no steps taken to secure a thorough English education for the students. Sophomore rhetoric increases rather than diminishes the evil, because the least attractive side of the study is presented. We ought rather...
Thursday, June 12. Prescribed Rhetoric. P. M. Freshman Physics.
"A TURGID stream of rhetoric" is what the Herald calls Professor Shaler's article in the March Atlantic.
THE critic in the Saturday Review little thought what distress he would cause among our "very English" students when he wrote the following about Professor Hill's Rhetoric: "Into the higher arts, whether of oratorical or literary expression, the author scarcely pretends to guide his pupils; and it is needless...