Word: chief
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...three years with residence outside of Princeton. The course in either case shall be under the supervision of the faculty. At his application, the candidate will be subjected to a preliminary examination, and at the conclusion of his course, a rigid examination will be required of him on the chief subject and the two subsidiary subjects which he has studied. Before getting his degrees and prior to the final examination, a thesis of not less than 12,000 words will be required of him. He also shall pay the sum of $40 on application; $20 at each examination...
...January number of the Monthly is the last number which will be brought out under the management of Mr. Baker, '87. Mr. Berenson '87 has been elected editor-in-chief for the second half year beginning in March. The February number, however, will also come under his charge...
...that Yale has the hardest victory to win, as well as the one most worth the winning. Yale was founded in a spirit of religious sectarianism, if not intollerance, and it must be difficult for her to meet even half way the growing need of American collegiate life, chief among which, of course, is freedom of religious thought. But the demand must be met, or the college must acknowledge herself defeated. This, we are sure, will not be permitted by her undergraduate spirit of pluck and pride...
...tenacity through the distractions which beset his daily path? We need, indeed we must have, a third class of helpful limitations which may be influential over the persistent adhesion of our student to his chosen line of work. To establish onward-leading habits, therefore, should be one of the chief objects in devising limitations of election. The habit wanted is the habit of spontaneous attack. Prescription deadened this vital habit. Election invigorates the springs of action. I believe study at Harvard is to-day more interested, energetic, and persistent than it has ever been before. But that is no ground...
...Chief results of these discoveries as regards the reconstruction of the history of the East before the Persian rule. Sketch of the gradual expansion of early Babylonian civilization, of the various states of Northern and Southern Babylonia, and of the rise of Assyria...