Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their instructors, but which, it would be admitted, have become of late somewhat strained. Doubtless some difficulty may be found in selecting a representative body of students, but this ought not to prove an insurmountable obstacle. Surely we are not going to admit that we are unable to accomplish what other colleges have successfully done. If no other method of choosing a student committee seems practicable, we might imitate, in part, the system which is followed in the selection of the men for the great secret societies of Yale. One representative, or perhaps two, might be elected from each...
...mass meeting of the students to prepare a petition to the faculty; offering to play with amended rules and to make such changes as seemed necessary, has fulfilled its duty by simply asking for another postponement of the entire question. As this committee had almost a month to accomplish its work and as the faculty had already granted us one delay, this last request was naturally refused. We regret that inter-collegiate foot ball has been prohibited, and this regret is but intensified when we are informed that to all outward appearances, every effort was not made by the students...
...such a way as to compel them to do some studying during the recess, would do all their work in the first few days and then rest entirely, they would be much more benefited than if they worked in a desultory manner all the time. They would probably accomplish more, and would certainly come back to their work at the beginning of the term feeling much more refreshed. The man who has kept up his courses in a conscientious manner during the term, is in need of rest, and every day's application to his studies in vacation detracts just...
Webster was only a few months in preparing for college, and during that brief period he commenced and mastered the study of Greek, so that his tutor was won't to remark that other boys required a year to accomplish the same end. Of all his father's children, Daniel was, as a boy, the sickliest and most slender, and one of his half-brothers, who was somewhat of a wag. frequently took pleasure in remarking, that "Dan was sent to school because he was not fit for anything else." Even from his boyhood he was an industrious reader...
...possible to combine with these a thorough study of the ancient world? The bad results of recent attempts to accomplish this in Germany justify Professor Paulsen in denying this possibility, and consequently he does not hesitate to exclude all classical study except the elements of Latin from the curriculum of the Gymnasium. In its place he puts a broader and more detailed treatment of history in all its branches, a more thorough study of the German language and literature, an elementary course in philosophy, comprising ethics. logic, psychology, and politics. Natural science and mathematics would also gain by the proposed...