Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...dozen years ago, when the importance of physical culture was just beginning to meet with its proper recognition, and when, moreover, the great increase in the number of students did not seem so near at hand as it afterwards proved to be. To-day the Gymnasium entirely fails to accomplish the object for which it was built. Let any one who doubts this visit the place between the hours of five and six P. M., and essay to exercise with the various apparatus. There is need of room for more parallel bars, for more rowing-weights, for a lifting-machine...
...accomplish all this, the Society has been at an expense of between four and five hundred dollars, more than half of which was subscribed at the meeting at which the change was decided upon, and the balance was forthcoming in so generous a manner as to give the strongest evidence of the growing interest felt for the society. So much for what has been done. It is in the future, however, that the Sophomores look for the best fruit of their labors, and are anxious that the spirit of progress, inaugurated by them, should find some worthy champions in those...
...this particular trust. We see no reason for apprehending such a difficulty. Few of the hundreds of scholarships already established in our colleges, few of the many charitable institutions throughout the land, the managers of which need the best judgment in deciding between many applicants for assistance, fail to accomplish their object through a faulty administration. If the millionnaire will provide the means, safe and sure ways will be found...
...soon, is evinced by the glaring faults into which they have ignorantly fallen, and to overcome which often require great exertion. Moreover, some such manual, plain and practical in its explanations, is needed by the various class crews, so that, knowing precisely what is required, they can labor to accomplish that...