Word: attained
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...meritorious students and entitled to encouragement and support; it being however, my wish that said money should not be awarded to any student solely by reference to his rank or standing as a scholar, but that regard should also be had to earnest and honest endeavor to attain excellence. The scholarship hereby established shall be called the 'Price Greenleaf Scholarship...
...life, as the element n which it is to live - the sympathy of God and the perfectability of man, that man or institution is redeemed, its fetters and restraints give way and it goes forward to whatever growth and glory it is in the line of its being to attain...
...been rumored that next year special students will be compelled to attain 75 per cent of the maximum mark in their elective studies, or sever their connection with the college...
...every man of determined opinions is at some time compelled to speak out those opinions, no opportunity ought to be neglected by which a better method of speaking may be obtained. The work of the Shakspere Club is admirably calculated to improve this method, and any success which may attain their work ought to be regarded as a benefit and an opportunity which may be used to attain better work. Little that is new can be learned from a lecture, it is true, but every lecture that is delivered by a successful, determined man, offers his hearers an inspiration which...
...successful career. And it is safe to say that if this habit is not gained by college men during the years they spend at college they will never acquire it. "Read," said an old monk to Anselm in his boyhood; "read my son, for by reading only mayest thou attain success." And to this advice vigorously followed may be ascribed the marvelous acuteness of intellect and stern application to study which so distinguished this keenest of reasoners...