Word: rhetoricize
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"How absurd!" exclaimed the Freshman, who had been reading Hill's Rhetoric, with a view to becoming Freshman editor of the Crimson. "It is ridiculous to personify feeling, to say nothing of embodying it in such a feeble old fellow as he is."
IN its review of Professor Hill's Rhetoric the Literary World has the following remark (the italics are our own): "Mr. Hill illustrates his treatise by copious citations from the works of others, - in a large part, rumor says, the theses and other exercises in composition of Harvard students; but...
IT is so often that we have something to find fault with that it is a pleasant change when there is anything to praise. A short time since the Professor of Rhetoric announced his intention of lowering the marks given at the anticipatory examination in this subject. At that time...
Let me say, in conclusion, that I did not anticipate the Rhetoric myself, and therefore have no personal motive in making this complaint.
A COMMUNICATION in the Correspondence column expresses the feeling, very general in college, against the proposed reduction of the marks given for the anticipatory examination in Sophomore Rhetoric, and against the precedent established by such action, - a feeling which is perfectly well grounded. That great injustice will be done by...