Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most cases some particular field will probably draw attention and make a merely general reading impossible. Above all read steadily; that is, do not draw out fifty books one month and only one or two the next. Find out how much you can digest and make an effort to accomplish that amount in a given time. [Dartmouth...
...clock may be given to study." The following remarks are especially worth noting : "If the student cannot get along without working directly after dinner and later than 10 P. M., he either has not learned how to employ his time, or is undertaking more than he can accomplish." Then follow some direction on the "care of the eyes," "stimulants and narcotics" and "hygenic and morality. "Altogether the little book is most valuable and we can hardly suggest a better investment for the average student than to obtain a copy...
...Finch is the most polished orator and closest platform reasoner of all the speakers now engaged in the temperance work, and will compare favorably with any elocutionist in the land. It is reported that a gentleman of influence has taken the matter in hand and he will doubtless accomplish his purpose...
...mother country, all efforts, and they have been many and earnest, spent upon the subject of my remarks, have wholly failed of rewarding results. Your predecessor in the chair Mr. President, the keen, sagacious and unwearied Mr. Savage, our chief in the labors of research, failed to accomplish in the case of Harvard what he did for so many other of our worthies, We recall the fervor of his utterance here when he spoke, as he has published in print, to effect that he would give a guinea for each word, or a hundred dollars for each of five lines...
...demand then in our college journals is that which pertains particularly to college life. It should represent all the institutions of a college, and represent them faithfully. It should be to the students as near as possible, the same as newspapers are to the general public. In order to accomplish this students must interest themselves in their papers, must support them, not only financially, but by contributing whatever is of interest, by bringing up for discussion all subjects of importance, and seeing that whatever needs attention is noticed. We have noticed a department in some of our eastern college papers...