Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Stuart Talbot, D.D., Bishop of Winchester, England, will preach in Appleton Chapel tomorrow at the 11 o'clock service. Dr. Talbot's career as Vicar of Leeds, Hon. Canon of Ripon, Chaplain-in-ordinary to the Queen, and as Bishop of Rochester, Southwark, and Winchester, is not his only claim to distinction. He is famous not only as a preacher, but also as the author of several well-known works on religious and kindred subjects...
...made for the use of courts; but except in the final and semi-final rounds, contestants must furnish their own balls. Matches will be for the best two out of three sets; they will be defaulted if not played on schedule, except in case of rain. A contestant may claim default if his opponent fails to appear within half an hour of the appointed time...
...perhaps the finest series of nineteenth century humorous drawings in any private library. Of drawings by the two Cruikshanks there are some 250, a considerable portion of these being dramatic portraits. The most interesting Cruikshank item is a sketch for "Oliver Twist," the drawing on which Cruikshank based the claim that it was he who had given Dickens the suggestions which he had elaborated in his novel...
...theorists, I need say regarding the grading merely that a piece-meal disposal of a course does not seem to me to spell scholarship. Regarding the second point, however, I can deal with facts, and facts with which, after some twenty odd years' experience as a tutor, I may claim to be tolerably well acquainted. As a professional tutor who is not a very ardent believer in "pernicious" tutoring, even as a "necessary evil," I am willing to disregard my own private interests so far as to affirm that the method proposed by the Student Council, and favored by your...
...making up the grades in a course. Under such a system regular study would take the place of irregular and uncertain endeavor; more regularity in work would lessen the evils of professional tutoring; and the man who for any good reason did poorly in his final test could not claim that any injustice had been done, for marks would be based upon work done throughout a course. Under such a system there would be an increase of work for those who prepare examinations and correct blue-books, but this and other objections raised against the proposed plan seem...