Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Captain Bob Cook, who undertook to coach the Yale crew this winter and spring, finds that he will be unable to devote the necessary amount of time to the work. Hull, the captain of last year's crew, has been persuaded to complete the task. Mr. Hull was the great...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMAON.-If the correspondence resulting from your article of February 8 upon "Our Ranking System" has not already proceeded far enough to be wearisome to your readers, I should like to explain to your correspondent of February 13, the use I made, in your issue of February 11...
"There are, let us say," continues the Times, "two hundred persons connected with Middlebury College as trustees, instructors, and pupils. They have been accustomed to buy their food, clothing and books, from persons unconnected with the college. They have used their capital and enjoyed their profits, but the persons on...
Most of the electives (including all that are "arranged in a sequence of progression") give a full years' work to those who take them. It is only in exceptional courses that the reform is needed, for instance in Greek 3 and in French 4. These courses may be taken in...
The specialist who loves his study may devote all possible time and energy to a course, and pass perfect examinations, and yet his work count less than that of this favored superficialist, who has spent less time on the course, but receives the higher mark because he has taken no...