A dictionary of correct English : a manual of information and advice concerning grammar, idiom, use of words, points of styles, punctuation, pronunciation, and other practical matters
A new self-teaching course in practical English and effective speech : comprising vocabulary development, grammar, pronunciation, enunciation, and the fundamental principles of effective oral expression
Lesson one. First among the evidences of an education I name correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue / Nicholas Murray Butler-- Lesson two. The flowering moments of the mind drop half their petals in our speech / Oliver Wendell Holmes-- Lesson three. Those things which now seem frivolous and slight will be of serious consequence to you, when they have made you once ridiculous / Earl of Roscommon-- Lesson four. His words, like so many nimble servitors, trip about him at command / Milton-- Lesson five. Talking is one of the fine arts... and its fluent harmonies may be spolied by the intrusion of a single harsh note / Oliver Wendell Holmes-- Lesson six. Language most shows a man; speak, that I may see thee / Ben Jonson-- Lesson seven. Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear / Joubert-- Lesson eight. And it is so plain to me that eloquence, like swimming, is an art which all men might learn, though so few do / Emerson-- Lesson nine. Mend your speech a litter, lest it may mar your fortunes / Shakespeare-- Lesson ten. Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade / Anonymous-- Lesson eleven. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact / George Eilot-- Lesson twelve. What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely / Goethe-- Lesson thirteen. Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future, conquests / Coleridge-- Lesson fourteen. The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none / Carlyle-- Lesson fifteen. He ceas's, but left so pleasing on the ear, his voice, that listening still they seemed to hear / Homer
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Photograph of three female students standing on the front drive in front of Clark Hall. The student on the far left may be Eileen McKenzie. A portion of a car is visible in the background.
Clark Hall Reception Room (?) Student Activities - supposed to be the ministerial students of 1911-12, but other students crept in. Top Row L-R: J. Sieight, F.W. McKinnon, E.H. Clarke, W.L. Wright, R. Edwards, R. Harvey; Front Row L-R: H.E. Green, J.L. Jordon, D.A. McGibbon, S.H. Potter, A.J. Radley
Brandon College resident students seen walking away from Clark Hall. The student body was going to the CPR station to meet Dr. McDiarmid on his return from Winnipeg, where he sought unsuccessfully to obtain a charter for Brandon College
Brandon College resident students walking down the streets of Brandon on their way to meet Dr. McDiarmid at the CPR station after his return to Winnipeg, where he sought unsuccessfully to obtain a charter for Brandon Charter
A group of male students pose in costumes. Back Row-L to R: Erlandson, ?, Johnson, Ole Larson, Watson. Middle Row-L to R: Archie Gordon, J. B. Nield, Ernest Vincent,?, ?. Last Row-L to R: J. L. Campbell, Philip Duncan, Calhoun
Brandon College students and professors. Back Row- Potter (holding a Brandon flag). Fourth Row- Professor Wright, R.G. Edwards. Third Row- Philpotts, Professor D. A. McGibbon, Robert Harvey. Second Row- ?, Arthur Ridley. Front Row- James Jordan, H.E. Green, F. W. McKinnon, Ernie Clark
