Word: actually
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which has not before been published. This remarkable autobiography was the result, so the author tells us, of a desire to make known the extreme difficulties, which reduced to small proportions, what might have been a good measure of achievement. After reading the story we are amazed at the actual amount of work the man accomplished under difficulties almost insurmountable, and can only faintly realize what he might have succeeded in doing had he been able to devote all his powers of concentration and remarkable energy to his work...
...letter in which their athletic committee has replied to Yale. They will wait with eagerness for further developments at New Haven, and in the interval of uncertainty all final judgment must be withheld. For the present it can only be hoped that Yale's letter does not express the actual feeling in the college...
...regard for the great principles of health can not help but get most invaluable ideas from this veteran trainer, the actual results of whose system have proven again and again their true worth...
...countries, is due to no improper forcing of the latter. The cause is to be found in the weakness and inadequacy of our methods of education for the young. The effect of this weakness is to bring boys of fourteen or fifteen to the preparatory schools with very little actual knowledge, and with no systematic training at all. In the process of hurrying such backward scholars into college, it is no wonder, and but small blame to the instructors, that the immediate preparatory training is itself insufficient and unsatisfactory. It is therefore not only the age of the Harvard freshman...
...such cases is now undertaken with very great care by a standing committee of the Faculty. Only those men who can with obvious advantage shorten their college course, are allowed the privilege, which is securely guarded from abuse. Owing to these necessary precautions, the number of cases of actual graduation in three years has been kept low, but the opportunity for it is offered as freely as is at present justifiable. The three years course can not be opened under general conditions until it is proved desirable by a very general excess in the College of work done over work...