Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Among the difficulties met by the American, the following may be mentioned. The language is, of course, the main one, but six months of honest hard work will overcome this in nearly every case, and in some special branches enough can be gained in four to answer all practical purposes. The script is peculiar and must be learned, for nearly all notices on the bulletins are written in it. The choice of lectures is often a problem, but as it is permitted to hear the various courses for about two weeks without settling down upon any particular one, this...
Another evil in athletics, which is the result of competition, is said to be unequal development produced by training for specialities. In answer to this we need only look at the prominent athletes in the different branches. They are almost without exception healthy, and well developed men. Athletes are beginning to see that the best training for a specialty is the thorough development of the whole body, and not the abnormal development of particular muscles. When this idea has become generally accepted, as it seems probable under Dr. Sargent's teaching that it will, then this objection to specialities...
...favored with an early answer to the invitation, and we request that if a delegate from the college is to honor us with his presence, his name and title may as soon as possible be communicated. In name and by authority of the University of Edinburgh...
Professor William Cook will answer questions in German 1 today, at 3 o'clock...
...have received a communication from an "anxious friend," begging us to inform him through our columns, "by what means students are awakened in case of fire occurring at night in the dormitories of the college?" This is a rather difficult question to answer. We can assure our anxious friend, however, that the college has, in its own opinion, sufficiently provided for the safety of its students under these circumstances by a liberal distribution of staples throughout the college buildings. We believe the authorities have not as yet, however, undertaken the difficult task of awakening every student in case of fire...