Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preparation for college entrance examinations. There are many such, throughout the country, and boys graduating from them have had either to go through an additional period of training solely for these examinations or enter colleges which admit on certificate. Now Harvard proposes to admit without examination those who attain a certain scholastic rank. It is a radical departure from the traditional Harvard method...
...said, ' The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.' While those identified with The Christian Science Monitor are not indifferent to its success, I can say?to once again quote Mrs. Eddy ?that they ' would much rather fail of success than attain it by reproachable means.' (Miscellaneous Writings...
...most of them it is thought of as an unattainable object. When the requirements are plainly understood, it becomes evident that by a slight effort many more men could profit by its privileges than the number listed at present. The facts are these: all men who attain Groups I and II in the Rank List (that is, all who have had a record of one and one-half A's and two and one-half B's or better, are automatically enrolled in the Dean's List, and remain on it as long as they continue that standard. Furthermore...
...CONN., April 24.--In the annual Senior Class balloting held here today the class voted Ellery S. Husted '23 of Peekskill, N. Y., as doing most for Yale. The class also signified by the ballot that election to Phi Beta Kappa was the greatest honor that an undergraduate could attain and that Harvard was the second best college in the country...
...these innocents abroad: "I wonder what an Englishman thinks about?", "I wonder what a Frenchman thinks about?" If it does, and they seek an answer, the impossible might happen--a few might return home with the avowed purpose of going into politics, and from that beginning attain the rarest of American titles, Statesman...