If convenient, make a trip to the salesroom of an automobile company. Learn the names of the different parts of the machine. Analyze each word so as to show the meaning of the root. 8 Let it not be supposed that our object is to perpetuate national hostility, or even to cherish a mere military spirit. It is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit of national independence, and we wish that the light of peace may rest upon it forever. We come, as Americans, to mark a spot which must be forever dear to us and our posterity. We wish that whosoever, in all coming time, shall turn his eye hither, may behold that the place is not undistinguished where the first great battle of the Revolution was fought. DANIEL WEBSTER: Oration at Bunker Hill. Write a dialogue between a pen and a sword proverb, "The pen is mightier than the sword." ory not fewer than six of the words above. WORD ANALYSIS in tel lec'tu al illustrating the Use from mem Analyze each word so as to show the meaning of the root. refer offer trial empire trail umpire proceed through precede thorough Use each of these words in a sentence. 9 One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. ... You will find that in order to understand perfectly and weigh exactly any vital piece of literature, you will be gradually and pleasantly persuaded to excursions and explorations of which you little dreamed when you began, and will find yourselves scholars before you are aware. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: An Address on Books and Libraries. Write a letter to the Century Company, Union Square, New York, asking them to send your magazine (St. Nicholas) to your new address and inclosing a year's subscription. Use from memory not fewer than six of the words above. COMMON ABBREVIATIONS i.e. (id est), that is N.B. (nota bene), note well e.g. (exempli gratia), for example viz. (videlicet), namely et al. (et alii), and others B.C. before Christ A.D. Anno Domini What is the meaning of each of these words? percentage pi'lot And, round that mighty bubble of St. Paul's, diz'zy mo'tor ben zine' ALFRED NOYES: Tales of the Mermaid Tavern. a'vi a tor (a'vi a ter) in'tri cate va ri'e ties mon'o plane |