Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of French 5 are at present seriously occupied by the near approach of an hour examination...
...lack of comical incidents and situations. The play was, however, excellently put on the stage and very well sung and acted; all that was needed afterward was to continue the system, varying the play, and giving both Boston and the university the benefit of as near an approach to the real Greek thing as we can manage to effect. Instead of this there has been nothing but cackling over the one egg. A fine egg it is, a large egg, meaty and of a high polish. But we have heard enough about it. To some people the play erred...
...Upon the approach of the examinations, we are all, except "the chosen few," reminded of the unpleasant results of 'deferring' our work. Notwithstanding its many advantages, it must be granted that the lecture system offers a great temptation to men to postpone their work until the few weeks immediately preceding the examination. A good modification of this system is adopted by one of the Greek professors. At suitable intervals, he has reviews at which excellent translations are required of the work of the past few weeks. In this way men are prevented from allowing the work to accummulate until...
...these general, indefinite assertions invariably lose credence as they approach the hyperbolic; hence they fail to carry entire conviction. This was my experience. I saw the necessity of presenting the bald, unerring figures...
...dwelt in the innermost secret chamber of the castle. The second dragon was Din, whose voice was louder than thunder and deafened any mortal in his presence. This Din was so fearful a dragon that his slave Subdin usually went before him and suffered no one to approach; and he who after seeing Subdin drew near to Din was reckoned the most rash of mortals. The fourth dragon was a white dragon, known as Rejistrah: and there was a strange legend about him, that he had once been a sea-jay, compelled to assume his present form because...