Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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A week before Easter, I ran down to Harrow to see a series of sports by the boys of that famous school. Winchester and Eaton, Harrow and Marlborough are the four great school nurseries for Oxford and Cambridge, and there is no honest athletic pastime but what is encouraged and...
The May number of the "Atlantic Monthly" contains a more than usual amount of good reading matter, which is saved from making the number heavy by the variety of subjects treated. The number opens with a dialect story of country life by Sarah Orne Jewett. Thomas Bailey Aldrich's poem...
But, if you insist on such evidence against a student as would stand only after passing through the mazy and fitful processes of law courts; if, as was remarked in our own recent trial, you are going to make the faculty not judges but mere jurymen, how in the name...
Second, in law a skillful and thorough detective system is employed to ferret out witnesses as well as detect criminals, and thus usually all whose testimony have a bearing upon the case are brought in whether willingly or not. It is needless to add that such a system in college...
To smuggle exercises of this character into instruction given in the name of arithmetic, is an abuse. By it has has been created a bastard arithmetic which fails to perform the true function of that study in our public schools - namely, to produce accuracy and a reasonable degree of facility...