Word: correct
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only a few hundred dollars. In the study of physics delicate and accurate instruments are absolutely necessary. Many instruments in the laboratory are in so wretched a condition that although the student may make the most exact calculations, he can feel sure that his results will not be correct. It is not even now too late to make an additional appropriation. The success of our physical studies demands that better opportunities should be afforded the student than he can at present enjoy...
...college receives with due appreciation the first of the new edition of summons cards. Beautiful in fresh type, stiff cardboard, and correct heraldry they will form a welcome addition to the bric-a-brac of many an abode of study. Perhaps we ought to rest content with the state of excellence which the cards have now reached, yet we cannot refrain from the hope that eighty-nine may some day be summoned by a billet blazing in crimson and gold, and borne by a boy in buttons...
...reckoning to bridge the difficulty. It is now determined that those juniors who have elected composition courses instead of writing the junior themes, shall write a thesis which shall equal in length the combined six themes. Of course it is very plain that it is easier to read and correct one long theme than it is to correct several short ones, aggregating the same length. Thus the affair is settled, and will, of course, prove highly successful...
...Rules heretofore published have been correct. No exceptions will be made...
...dreary compositions written by the great majority of candidates for admission to college were correct in spelling, intelligent in punctuation, and unexceptionable in grammar, there would be some compensation; but this is so far from being the case that the instructors of English in American colleges have to spend much of their time and strength in teaching the A B C of their mother tongue to young men of 20-work disagreeable in itself, and often barren of result. Every year Harvard graduates a certain number of men-some of them high scholars-whose manuscript would disgrace...