Word: tracee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although many attempts have been made to trace back the observance of class day to the very earliest years of the college, it is probable that the first exercises are directly due to an attempt made by the overseers in 1754 to improve the elocution of the students by requiring public recitation of Latin dialogues, or dialogues translated from the Latin into the English...
...life." And, on the third heading, he says forcibly: "Indeed, although youth is called the age of sentiment and enthusiasm, I know no less enthusiastic or sentimental place than college; no place where there is more shyness in the expressing of lively sensibility. . .This trait of our character, I trace to our being undomesticated...
...many articles on the method employed of distinguishing the different grades of scholarship attained by men at college. By some, the marking system is upheld, as the only means to prevent idleness and neglect, and as an unfailing incentive to "healthy, honest competition," as one contemporary has it; others trace from it all the prevalent evils that result from overwork and cramming, while some, with careful conservatism, agree that it is a good which, like all other goods, possesses some grain of evil that cannot be avoided. In one exchange the methods of assigning scholarships at German, English and American...
...weak, that those in the back of the room would fain have had telephonic communication with the desk. As near as could be gathered his lecture was taken up with a review of Addison, the author's mode of criticism as shown in the "Spectator," an attempt to trace its effects in the German school. Part of the lecture was occupied in readings from "Sir Roger de Coverley." Those who had read Sir Roger recognize and appreciate Mr. Perry's efforts to bring out the "delicate touches" of the work. The effect on subsequent English writers, the success...
Professor S. Wells Williams of Yale College says the story of the beheading of Chin Chin Chan, formerly a student there, must be apocryphal. He cannot trace the letter said to have been received, and is certain no beheading could have been done at Hong Kong, as reported, for that is an English province...