Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...petition placed at Bartlett's would receive the names of many of the most influential men of Cambridge and of all students interested in getting their messages on time. Such a petition in the hands of interested parties ought to accomplish the desired results and make Cambridge one step nearer perfection...
...older class of men here from the schools; it would raise the scholarship both of the college and the school; it would give a year more for following out any particular branch a man may elect. Nearly every one feels how short a time three years is to accomplish anything definite, and the added year would go far to make the college education more satisfactory both to the student and to the outside world, while the increased age of the men would certainly promise a better sort of work than is now given, at least in the first year...
...open to the same objections in its present form as the catalogue. In addition to the names, there are the strange abbreviations which are intended to make known to the world the honors which have been received by each man, but which, in a great many cases, fail to accomplish their object...
...even start may be expected. Thus, little by little the necessary arrangements attendant on the class races are becoming perfected. A year or two ago the shells were started for the first time from boats moored in the stream. This made a correct alignment more sure and easier to accomplish than by the older method. Now, this year will see the referee steaming rapidly about in the nimble "'87," and consequently placed in a position to start the crews without resorting to the confusing steam whistle...
...ball. If the ground is only allowed to harden, both games can be played on them in the future, and thus can a greater amount of good be extracted from our limited fields. Signs warning all people to keep off till the ground is hard, would, we think, accomplish the desired...