Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trouble. A great part of the aimless reading of the summer is a direct result of pure carelessness. If we should only take proper precautions to have by us some of the books which we have determined to read before the advent of warm weather, we would undoubtedly accomplish far more than if we trusted to chance to furnish us with our reading material. Every one, if he but gives the matter a moment's thought, must find that he is lamentably deficient in his knowledge of the works of this or that noted writer, and that there are innumerable...
...faithful work and self-sacrifice. Although the crew has been described as a faulty one, we have, nevertheless, great confidence in it and hopes of success. Whatever may be the result of the races we may rest satisfied that all that was possible for the captain and men to accomplish has been done. It would doubtless be gratifying to every member of the crew to know, by the presence of a large number of students at their last row, that their efforts have been appreciated by the college...
...years bitterly, without affection or sentiment, for to him his alma mater has been a good instructor,-that is all. For success, a class wherever it be, must associate and act in unison, and not remain broken up into little groups which are in opposition to each other and accomplish but little in whatever direction they turn...
...regulating business enterprises which are prosecuted through the instrumentality of corporate organization; to define the rights and liabilities of the different classes of persons interested; and to treat of those rights and liabilities according to the manner in which they come before the courts for determination. To accomplish this the writer, having briefly noticed the views regarding corporations held in the Roman and in the older common law, submits in the third and fourth chapters an analysis of the notion of a corporation, with some remarks on the resemblances between corporations and certain other legal institutions. There follows...
...that she can afford us. We cannot afford to graduate with the thought that our education is complete. It is only begun. What does "Commencement" mean? We, at best, only can lay at college a respectable foundation upon which to build in after years. Neither specializing nor superficiality will accomplish this. A good, sound, sensible basis upon which we can rely in after life will prove of the greatest advantage...