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...huge pages of this paper are filled with a biographical notice of a fictitious Amherst trustee, - a notice which is apparently intended to be of a humorous character. The Exchanges are written with a good deal of care, and with a most elaborate effort at chatty easiness of style. Indeed, the effort is so elaborate that the chatty easiness is lost, and the result of the writer's labors by no means repays the pains which he has bestowed upon them...
RHETORIC. Hill's General Rules for Punctuation, and for the Use of Capital Letters; Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric, Book 2 to Section 3 of Chapter 6; Whately's Rhetoric, Part 3; Herbert Spencer's Essay on the Philosophy of Style; Abbott's How to Write English Clearly, first twenty-five Exercises...
...first is with regard to the style of speaking. The judges are selected annually, and the award of prizes depends entirely upon the taste of the gentlemen who are called upon to serve. Now if it happens that the committee is made up of a majority who favor a forensic or parliamentary style of speaking, and do not approve of an exhibition of dramatic art, then the Websters and Burkes get all the prizes, while the disciples of Shakespeare or the other poets come away empty-handed. If, on the other hand, the majority are gentlemen who dislike " spouting...
Latin 3 introduces the student to the literature of the second century of the Empire. The Agricola is the biography of a great general by a great historian. Its style is essentially different from that of any prose in the preparatory or required courses, and, generally speaking, is found harder. The Satires of Juvenal are more powerful, and perhaps less amusing, than those of Horace. In reading the Georgics, it is proposed to investigate the peculiarities and difficulties of Virgil's style more thoroughly than can be done in schools, where he often receives - most illogically - the name...
...finish of the stroke were made up for by "meeting" so as to be in time for the next stroke, especially in the upper part of the boat. Had Weld or Holyoke been as well "together" as Holworthy, they would have undoubtedly beaten, from superior strength and style. However, Holworthy had one important excellence which all the other crews lacked. They kept their oars in the water until the end of the stroke, getting the drag on the end, and keeping up the shoot of the boat, while the other crews each more or less snatched too soon from...