Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, commencement appointments are awarded, as at Harvard, to all who attain a certain mark, which, however, has gradually been advanced. At Amherst the eight seniors who have obtained the highest average during the four years' course are the honor men at commencement. Lehigh and Swarthmore choose the highest six, the average being taken for the last three years of the course...
...feared by some that the Jews will soon attain too great a power in the world by reason of their vast riches but this was thought by Professor Toy to be a cause for little fear. It is true that there is a certain antagonism to, and prejudice against, the Jews but this is gradually vanishing. Then, too, it must be remembered that the Christians were the ones responsible for the degraded position of the Jews in the Middle Ages, since they were at that time forbidden to own lands and were thus driven to be traders. It has been...