Word: chief
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...loves, one in high and one in low life; both the heroines sprain their ankles and have to be carried home, and so on through the books. Both the authors are excellent when they describe college scenes, both fail when they introduce an irrelevant romantic element. The chief merit of "Tom Brown at Rugby" is that it tells exclusively of school life; the chief defect of "Tom Brown at Oxford," and one which Mr. Severance has unfortunately imitated, is that college life is made of secondary importance. Neither Mr. Hughes nor Mr. Severance is a first or even second rate...
...Orator, Mr. Blodgett, - who was introduced by the Chief Marshal, Mr. Thayer, after the singing of the Ode, - struck a very happy vein in his discourse, and succeeded in keeping his hearers intensely amused...
...have been educated here who now fill the college. Far from it. Not one in eight of the students now in college is the son of a man who has received a degree from the University, no matter in what department. It is one of the chief delights of those who have the privilege of devoting their lives to the service of this precious institution, that they work not alone for the generation which is now under their hands, but for the thronging generations of the future...
...undoubted merits of the successful competitors, or the wishes of the gentlemen who acted as judges to do their best in a very difficult and, to some of them apparently, a novel position. But it does seem to us that power to sway an audience is one of the chief requisites of good speaking, and it is surely strange that neither of the three speakers whom the audience would have placed as high, if not higher, than any others, was mentioned in the award. Either there are certain arbitrary requirements, unknown to all but the judges themselves, or else they...
...which is perfectly well grounded. That great injustice will be done by such reduction seems to be evident to every one; for the fact, which is doubtful, that the marks were too high, is no excuse for lowering these marks eight months after they were given. One of the chief merits of anticipatory examinations is, that the student is at liberty either to accept the result, or to take the course throughout the year; in this case, the marks are to be so lowered that many students would not have accepted them, and this is done when...