Word: attained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the arguments in favor of the system are as strong in its behalf when allowed to the lowest class in college, as the higher classes. The system is a preventive of, and a cure for, poor scholarship. It introduces the student to those studies in which he may attain excellence. It abolishes the ne cessity of his knocking his head against departments of knowledge in the attaining of which his ability is slight. It tends to establish the habit of intellectual thoroughness; it advances scholarship in every realm of study, in the case of the professor as well...
...much too hot or they are very much too cold. During the present season the former has perhaps been more prevalent than the latter, the rooms more often too warm than too cold. Why can't we have the good old "happy medium," or at least some attempts to attain it? Nothing wars so powerfully against the gaining of knowledge as an unpleasant atmosphere. To be sure some argue for the best development of genius under uncomfortable circumstances, but then not many of us have genius. Great genius may survive conflicts with circumstances and gain strength at the same time...
...during the captaincy of our late coach, it was argued that a straight back, and an active chest allowed free and easier breathing, an important consideration in a race of from twenty to twenty-five minutes. Further, it was thought that an "eight" composed of amateur college oarsmen could attain greater precision with a long steady hip movement than with an irregular back movement...
...Vermont college, who entered with '32 and is to graduate with '85, and from the example thus set before him draw hope. It is true that some of us, who live at the rate of $1.500 a year, might object to expending such a large sum as $79.500 to attain A. B. as an appendix to our names, but still, chacun a son gout...
...first division will consist of men who have attained certain other records, which can be ascertained from the captain. Thus the whole team will be classed according to records. If any member of the second division shall, during the winter, attain the record required for the first, he will be entitled to enter it Likewise if any one outside the team shall attain the record required for the second division, he will be entitled to enter that division...