Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attempt will be made this year to have each man attain the full bodily development of which he is capable. To this end the exercise will not as in former years, be limited to rowing and during a few months the work at the chest weights and running; but throughout the year each man will be expected to exercise that part of his body or those muscles which are weakest. If a man is not strong in the arms dumb bell work is prescribed, or if he is weak in the back, certain movements in bending every day will...
...very interesting, manner the power of properly applied oratory. While an Inter-Collegiate Oratorical Association would be surrounded by many and great difficulties such a local organization as that proposed at present would receive immediate and enthusiastic attention. Such an enterprise cannot receive too great encouragement nor attain too high a success. We wish the club every good fortune, and feel confident that immediately upon its organization it will meet and fulfill the expectations of the many who look forward to its appearance as a Harvard institution...
...work has been received with praise and bids fair to attain a large circulation. The method of translation which Prof. Palmer has employed is certainly an experiment and the success of the volume will depend largely upon the success of this experiment. If we may judge, however, from the criticisms which have already been passed upon it, there is little chance of the experiment proving a failure...
...admirers of the rifle. There is something about rifle shooting which is peculiarly fascinating. The dependence upon the single bullet and the skill which putting it in the right place necessitates, has a tendency to give the rifleman a like precision of ideas. In order to attain any considerable degree of skill it is essential that he should be a good reasoned. Distances, effect of the atmosphere and wind, are among the points to be considered. If the shot is to be made at any kind of game, the speed at which it is moving must, of course, be noted...
...shall we go to work to supply our deficiency in literary taste? Mr. Wendell gave three steps which he thought he could trace in those whom he had seen attain to genuine taste for literature. First, a period of devotion to the approved authors, attended usually without much pleasure, and frequently with much discouragement. Second, this continues (provided the discouragement does not prevail) until the reader finds some one production which really appeals to him. The author of this becomes in his estimation the only one worth reading. Third, from this he at length begins to branch out, and, having...