Word: followed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boathouse, together with an accurate sketch of some double-scullists, and a lifelike representation of the University Six, showing the true Yale position of the back and shoulders at the beginning of the stroke. We wish it every success in its new enterprise, and only hope it may not follow the example of most illustrated papers, and become sensational. We say this because of an article which appears on "Harvard Clubs," purporting to be a true exposition of the status of the clubs and societies of Harvard. The article, besides being calculated to create a false impression by its general...
...friend once said to me, "Two fellows, to room together happily, must either be very similar in tastes and pursuits, or else totally different: in the first case, they will agree and be together in almost everything; in the second, each will follow his own course, unhindered by the likes or dislikes of his chum...
...consequently professors more capable than the private individual, who cannot risk but a certain part of his capital Nor is this all. You can, it is true, teach whatever you choose in these private schools, but the University courses are directed by the government. You are forced to follow the plan of study fixed upon for the examinations for your baccalaureat. The University alone confers the degree of bachelor; therefore you must conform to its programme. Without receiving this degree one can become neither lawyer nor judge nor physician. The degree of bachelor is the door which opens nearly...
...France. Before, however, making you acquainted with this programme, let me first point out one peculiarity. In your country there is a natural transition from the common schools to the high schools, and from these last to the colleges. Scholars who wish to make their course complete, generally follow through the grades of these schools. They rise, insensibly, by examinations, from the primary school to college. With us there is nothing similar. Primary instruction is enclosed within an impassable barrier. The scholar who goes to a primary school can keep on going all his life; he will never pass...
Because she refused to follow...