Word: gain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Though they had nothing more to gain...
...pleasant characteristics of New England life, and the stories are the more interesting for the degree to which they appeal to one's own experience. In point of literary workmanship, the tales vary to some extent. The second is one of really weird pathos, and so placed as to gain in power by contrast. No. 4 is very ingeniously contrived and very amusing. The last is "A Bit of Shore-Life," and is refreshingly "salt." It consists of a series of rapid descriptions of shore-life, as vivid as one of Norton's "Marines" strung upon a simple thread...
...little or no time for anything else. Outside reading, theses, and hour examinations are not only recommended, but forced upon us to such a degree, that we are obliged to neglect other courses where instructors are more reasonable in their demands. In the first-mentioned course, too, we merely gain a superficial knowledge of a multitude of things, instead of a thorough understanding of a few. This is especially true of a course where, in addition to the outside work just mentioned, the theses (not mentioned in the elective pamphlet) are to be exhaustive, that is, to consist...
...fact that the tickets to Memorial Hall, which were to be good for both afternoon and evening, had to be given up on entering, and could not be returned to all on coming out, caused inconvenience to a considerable number. It seems that not a few managed to gain entrance to the Hall in the afternoon without tickets, and hence the tickets gave out when being returned. The fault seems to rest upon the doorkeeper and the depravity of mankind...
...Faculty to secure such an arrangement of recitations on the Tabular View as shall need little, if any, change for two or more years; in this way it is hoped that men may partially or entirely select their electives for more than one year. This is obviously a great gain to students, and we hope it may be found practicable. The Faculty further intend to arrange the examinations, next year and in subsequent years, so far as is possible, in accordance with the groups on the Tabular View. We also understand that some change is to be made...