Word: closer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...them more decided shape in the mind, and therefore, greater possibility of being readily comprehended. The careful note-taker is a sort of artist, and in a page covered with paragraphs, and sub-paragraphs, a-b.c's and 1-2-3's he sees a picture, a closer scrutiny of which reveals to him the thought and life that it represents. Who knows the meaning of a painting better than the painter? Who knows the meaning of a written page better than the writer...
...proficiency in their chosen specialties,-as may be seen from a glance at the prize list, on which appear clocks, statuary, silk umbrellas, easy chairs, and books without number. This method of rewarding athletic excellence may, at the first glance, seem rather peculiar, but, we are sure, a closer inspection of the system will reveal some points of excellence which are not to be found in the present method of prize-giving in vogue at Harvard...
...expense of printing official bulletins and distributing them to each student. That scholarship should also be well represented is not hard to explain. There are many questions and points involving class standing, scholarships, courses, etc., which would be much better understood and adapted to present needs if a closer intimacy existed between faculty and students. A good example of the propriety of having scholarship represented, is the case of the Princeton ranking system reform, mentioned only a few days ago in these columns, which was accomplished by a happy union of instructors and undergraduates...
...shaped and quaint old bottle which looked as though it might have come over in that receptacle of all New England relics, the Mayflower. Now although the gentleman in question disclaims any attraction to or for bottles in general, this particular bottle proved too alluring, and a closer inspection was the result...
...this issue our readers will find a statement of the present attitude of the Committee of Conference. That the gentlemen of the committee have the best interests of the students at heart, and are anxious to bring about closer relations between them and the faculty, we feel certain. But they seem to us to be needlessly timorous. Other colleges are already in advance of us in this matter of student co-operation, and that too when there is hardly a college in this country where such co-operation would have so little prejudice and disaffection to encounter as here...