Word: verbalizations
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...superintendent of buildings has notified us that seniors who expect to use rooms of other students on class day will not be admitted to those rooms by the janitors without a written or verbal order from the owners of the rooms...
...Eliot, chairman of the class committee, made some remarks on the class fund, stating the purpose of the fund and requesting members of the class to subscribe liberally. The class secretary, Mr. Hibbard, also made remarks about the class lives, stating that although he had received verbal promises from more than a hundred men that they would write their lives, but fourteen lives had been handed in. Mr. Hibbard offered to "interview" any members of the class who did not feel equal to the task of writing his life himself ; although he did not think this a good plan...
...Tribune, was in college, he revealed an unusual zeal in mastering the difficulties of the mother tongue. He got his Latin and Greek, but he was always subjecting to an analysis all the English spoken within reach of his hungry ear. He killed off a great number of these verbal savages during his college days and thus in part fitted himself for the office of war correspondent and editor. College graduates have written letters in which there was the following spelling: "colledge," "sundies," "to great," "to fat," "separate." It would be interesting to learn the individual history of such...
...saying that he should leave for Europe before its next meeting. He hoped that steps would be taken to make the valuable and interesting meetings of the association accessible to the general public, and to print reports of them in some scientific journal. He thought it desirable also that verbal and impromptu reports be more often made, in addition to the papers read, and "the well known American bashfulness" thus overcome...
...only be regarded at the best as a somewhat trivial and fantastic accomplishment an accomplishment so singularly barren of all results that it has scarcely produced a dozen original poems on which the world sets the most trifling value; while we waste years in thus perniciously fostering idle verbal imitations, and in neglecting the rich fruit of ancient learning for its bitter useless and unwholesome husk-while we thus dwarf many a vigorous intellect, and disgust many a manly mind while a great university, neglecting in large neasure the literature and the philosophy of two leading nations, contents itself with...