Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...give the college the full benefit of his scholarship; beside Professor Child there were one or two transient instructors in Rhetoric - transient because at that time the attitude of students toward the study of their own language left little hope in life for the man who undertook to teach them...
...autumn of 1872 Professor Hil came here to teach Rhetoric and English Composition. His first year' work was enormous; not only did he have all the juniors and all the sophomores in Rhetoric, and - if I remember rightly - all the sophomores in Themes: but feeling that students needed more practice in writing than the college provided for them, he took upon himself the criticism of two extra sets of sophomore themes. From that time to this, Professor Hill has been steadily working to build up an English Department; and although obliged to give most of his strength to Composition...
...among the students, lack of sympathy in the Faculty, and bitter personal opposition out of the Faculty. He has established a department which does not pretend to be remarkably scholarly, but which does its best with the problem before it, a problem that none but men who do not teach English have ever solved to their own satisfaction. Loaded down with undergraduate literature, making many mistakes of method in instruction where all methods are as yet experimental, the English Department works on; and feels year by year more gratitude to the critic at once severe and kind who has already...
...result of our last Princeton game must have shown our team the importance of playing hard in the beginning, and scoring first, if possible; while last year's Yale-Princeton game should teach them that even if Yale should be fortunate enough to score first, that does not prove that they are going to win. A game is not lost till it is won. The game is played on our own grounds, and the team will have the support of all the men in college, and of all the graduates who can possibly get here, all of whom have confidence...
...must master all the details of elocution, such as, standing, and I perceive that few of you know how to stand even, - enunciation and action before you can have your body at our command for the expression of your feelings. But this, in fact is all that elocution can teach you, to have your bodily means of expression entirely under the control of your will, - which is power...