Word: aspirantes
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If after entering the ranks any one wishes to attain some commission, an examination must first be passed; but if he has previously acquitted himself creditably at a preparatory military school, he may be promoted without being examined. After a fixed term of service the aspirant is then advanced to...
The University of Pennsylvania has placed itself in a very peculiar position. It attempts to assert that hereafter, if they do not receive an answer within sixty days to their challenge to row an eight-oared race, they will be champions of all the American colleges. In other words, they...
SOME disappointed aspirant suggests that the Art Club medal consists of a silver palette because its members lack taste.
THE critic in the Saturday Review little thought what distress he would cause among our "very English" students when he wrote the following about Professor Hill's Rhetoric: "Into the higher arts, whether of oratorical or literary expression, the author scarcely pretends to guide his pupils; and it is needless...
P. S. I have read this to Popkins, who is an aspirant, and he is delighted with it. He complains, however, that the hardest work is to collect material for the dissertation. I am surprised at this; the process is so simple. Take your note-book and go to the...