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Certain English Authors as Masters of Style. Course for freshmen. Special subject: Alexander Pope. Prof. A. S. Hill. Sever...
...instructor in sophomore theme work because the practice of allowing the themes to be corrected by members of the class had not been continued after its initial trial. The writer demanded the reason of the discontinuance of a plan which he claimed enabled the students "to improve his style beyond recognition." It is only just to say that we have been informed by the instructor in question why the practice was discontinued, and that the reasons are perfectly satisfactory both from the standpoint of convenience upon which our correspondent laid great stress, and also from the more scholarly standpoint...
...ideas obtained from reading the work of others was of inestimable value. No matter how careful and thorough in his criticisms the instructor is, no matter how painstaking the student is, under the present system, he can but go on attempting to perfect himself in the peculiar style which chance or his early education may have led him to adopt. If he gets a chance to study other themes besides his own, he gets new ideas, he sees an entirely different style which has certain charms which his own does not possess, and almost unconsciously the beauty of the ideas...
Then came the sparring, which was in the main well contested and scientific, although several of the bouts degenerated into the regions of slugging. Gaines won the first bout, feather-weight, in very good style, using his left hand to especial advantage. The second bout between E. Grew, H., '89, and J. D. Williams, was the sharpest and most one sided contest of the day. Grew was beaten in the first, although he stood up for the second and third rounds. In the second round the made a brace which availed him nothing. He was knocked out in the third...
...SATURDAY.Certain English Authors Considered as Masters of Style. Course for freshmen. Special Subject: Alexander Pope. Prof. A. S. Hill. Sever...