Word: attained
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...distinction on graduation have not been infrequent. Changes in favor of the student have been made in the last two or three years and some lately. And now, although required to do the work prescribed for the time he is here, a fresh., sophomore, junior, or senior may attain any of the three grades. His case is decided on its own merits...
...Prospect House. Two rooms can be hired there for about $200 a year. Men from college could go down and live in these rooms, relieving each other every month or two, if necessary. Definite assurances of aid must be given before anything can be done. The Union must attain some such position and certainty of support as the 'varsity crew has. The meeting tonight has been called to see if this support will be given...
...advisable. He thinks that routine work is too characteristic of the present grammar-school system due to the prescribed courses almost entirely, rather than to any fault of the teachers. The prescriptions of the course prevent a bright boy from advancing faster than any other. He may of course attain a higher rank but he must stay in the same division with the dull boy. In consequence under this compulsory system the dull boy lowers the age of matriculation of the whole class. These new changes will reward the work of all with due promotion and the brighter boys will...
...England Magazine for November, the account of "The Home and Haunts of Lowell" by Frank B. Sanborn. Mr. Sanborn was for many years an intimate friend of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Lowell, and he possesses a knowledge of the men which those who simply read their books can never attain. Although within the last two months a number of articles about Lowell have appeared, none of them went safely into an account of Lowell's student and home life as does Mr. Sanborn's. He draws a vivid sketch of the intellectual and social life of Cambridge, when the class...
...sermon was an exposition of how hard and persistently people work to attain low ends and to what an extreme they carry worldly lives; and ended with an exhortation to extend those energies in a worthier and higher cause. The story of the unjust steward was cited as a proof of how far worldliness may be carried when resolved to attain its end, and the history of the years of laborious and painstaking work of the Eastern dancing girls was given as an example of how hard people do strive for success in the lower grades of life. Then another...