Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee. There will be no prescribed course of study for members, excepting the presentation of four theses annually upon work done during the year. The course shall extend to three years. For the present, members are to be chosen and sent by the various cooperating colleges as they see fit. It is expected that there will be eight or ten pupils at the school next year, and among them possibly a graduate from Harvard. One student, at least, will probably go from New Haven and one from New York. These students, supported by fellowships from their respective colleges, will...
...maturity correspond with the promise of his youth." That exchange editor and successful prophet was J. O. Sargent, at present an overseer of the university. An appeal for the reading-room on page 64 we are tempted to transfer bodily and apply to the present day ; it would fit very well...
...this an unpleasing fallacy, as every one knows who "cuts" to any degree, but many instructors in giving out their marks take into consideration the regularity of a man's attendance at the recitations. "I can not give you any better mark if you do not think it fit to attend my recitations," is a reproof that more than one disappointed man has received, when he knew and felt that his work was deserving of a higher mark. Many instructors thus take offense at a student who cuts, and he suffers accordingly...
...consciousness and disingenuousness, not the least in the world; or, if any, of a most simple and taking kind. And if there appears, now and then, a little pedantry and almost "Western" heaviness, did not the discriminating editors of the Register show their good intentions and appreciation of the fit by adopting as their motto the classic phrase from Byron, "I won't philosophize and I will be read?" And yet, we take it, still in a measure we have inherited something of the style and frequent felicity of expression possessed by these predecessors of ours, and the traditional literary...
...appropriation of $85,000 is asked to fit out an expedition for the the observation of the transit of Venus...