Word: account
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...true that an Advocate editor has been engaged to conduct this department on account of having greater familiarity with the subject...
DAVID A. WELLS has sent a letter to the Finance Club, regretting that he will not be able to deliver a lecture before them this year on account of ill-health, and hoping to be able to give one next year...
DEAR JIM, - As you were kind enough to ask me in your last letter for some account of my life here, I will give it to you, with a fair warning that you brought it on yourself...
...with pleasure that we print this week a letter from Mr. William Cook in relation to his method of marking examination-books. Perhaps, on the whole, he is right in refusing to contribute an account of it to the columns of a college paper. We certainly think it very likely that if he did so his system would be attacked, as he himself suggests, and this would of course put him in rather an awkward position. Whatever may be thought of Mr. Cook's method of procedure, - and we can say from his own account of it that...
...some of our instructors of marking on each examination-book the hour at which the student leaves the examination, is one for which we can see no excuse. There is no good reason why the time which it takes each student to pass his examination should be taken into account in assigning his mark. If he is unable to finish the paper on account of its length, by all means let allowance be made for this fact; but we do not see why his mark should be lowered because he gets through with all that he is able or wishes...