Word: attained
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...improvement over the present system, if scholarships were distributed as follows: Let men show that they need money, and how much money they need; let a standard rank be fixed, - for example, no mark to be less than B; let then the scholarships be distributed to all men who attain this rank and need money, in proportion to their needs...
...circumstances, it must include a receptive and reverent frame of mind, a spirit of self-sacrifice, and a desire to fulfil the great purpose of God, to which work we are called. All of us may do this, and if we are temperate and diligent we may hope to attain this standard, and to do noble work...
...Appleton Chapel on the transition from University life to that of the outside world. University life, he said, is often thought to unfit a man for success in after life, and the question arises, is the scientific training of the University ethically so different from that necessary to attain a definite object, that in which worldly success exists, that it renders a man unable to accomplish anything after his college training? In this connection a college training is understood as a thorough training in science, the bringing of a man into the scientific spirit, of which the chief...
...Cornell Navy's new launch, which it is expected will be finished by May 1, is to be one of the best of its kind in the country. The launch is 60 feet long, 9 feet beam and is to be fitted with compound engines which will attain a maximum speed of 16 miles an hour. The total cost of the launch will be about...
Throughout, in composition the architect should hold truth before him as the ideal which he is striving to attain, he should never resort to constructive trickery. A bad idea suppressed is a triumph for the good...