Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which victory would have aroused. The few days at Springfield, when all were moved by the same excitement, did more to bring the class together than did months of routine here. The new boating system may do much for the rowing of the new classes, but it will never accomplish anything like this...
...accomplish this, some crew would have to be found of sufficient strength to press the University hard enough to make the race interesting. Probably no one of the class crews could do this, yet on each there are some especially desirable men; and it seems possible that a crew might be formed of these men that would give the University hard work to leave it behind...
...which Harvard is fast shaking off, - and of such a system is not the proposed plan a natural outgrowth? A few would be made happy by outstripping their competitors, most of whom would, of course, be disappointed and disgusted with the scholastic or literary pursuits which had failed to accomplish for them the desired object, while the great body of the students would be affected not at all, or only in their pockets...
...first to raise them up so that they may have a due respect for the promise. And when, either through religious excitement, interest in business, or separation from vulgar scenes, they once reach this point, no longer does the need of a pledge exist. Men who have anything to accomplish, who have a personal interest in their work, are not the men to indulge in any vice that lessens their energy. It is necessary, therefore, as far as the classes are concerned that furnish the common drunkards of our police courts, to show them what is for their self-interest...
...papers before scientific associations, was busy in the laboratory, observed and tried to solve the secrets of nature, gathered an immense store of specimens, undertook the publication of works requiring an almost incredible amount of labor for completion, and, in short, attempted more work than ten ordinary men could accomplish. Among his published works may be mentioned "Twelve Lectures on Comparative Embryology," "Systeme Glaceale," "Lake Superior," "The Structure of Animal Life," "A Journey to Brazil," "Methods of Study in Natural History," "Contributions to the Natural History of the United States," - of which but four volumes have appeared, published in monographic...