Word: attainable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...toward its close, there arose a systematic apotheosis of laziness. It was probably in 1796 that the idea of forming the Navy Club was conceived by some wag of the college. The principle of its existence was that it should be a brotherhood of all those who failed to attain distinction in their studies. It was a senior society, and only those members of the class were admitted to membership "who failed to receive parts at the senior exhibition." The election of the "Lord High Admiral" of the navy occurred before the announcement of the senior parts, and a sealed...
...content with one victory over Yale, but win both ball games. Strict attention to duty and implicit obedience to your captain are the only means of arriving at the end which not only your classmates, but also the whole college, wish you to attain...
...prolonged absence occasioned by illness or other extraordinary cause, in which case such loss may be made up by private examinations. In other cases the rank of each student will be determined wholly by the work done at the regular recitations of his class. Any student who fails to attain a rank of 50 per cent. by reason of absence from recitations, except in cases of prolonged absence as above mentioned, can make up such deficiency only by reciting with a lower class...
...more or less indefinite. But let us not mix up two things that are so easily kept separate, and which ought to be so kept. All experience proves that now and then a student only wastes time by trying to learn a foreign language, and that he may nevertheless attain a fair degree of scholarship in other departments. Some students who make little progress in the dead languages do fairly well with the living. The mind of one learner may be most effectively trained by means of one science, that of another, by another. And it is not asking...
...worthy men who uphold the compulsory system undoubtedly long to bring into the church students who are out of it, and they believe that by compelling such students to go to church they may attain their end. But we are satisfied that they are making a great blunder. They are trying to win those who are out of the fold. Those who are already in it will voluntarily avail themselves of religions privileges and, with rare exceptions, remain steadfast in the faith. These are not the students for whose improvement and conversion the college authorities express anxiety. But if compulsion...