Word: gain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...provisions as that no member of Congress shall hold office and that of the advice and consent of the Senate on all appointments mean nothing. Our real safeguard is in the sturdy sense of the American people. To seek some object first and then to seek the means to gain it, is illogical. To get good legislation, we first need to get good public men. To do that civil service is needed. In, say, a question of tariff legislation, keen strife between groups of producers is inevitable. If we commit such a task to men who peddle votes for places...
...there were more academic distinction to be gained by winning one of these prizes, they would undoubtedly attract more attention than they do at present, and it seems as though every possible means should be taken to gain this end; for, as incentives to original research and means of raising the standard of scholarship they cannot be valued too highly. It has always been the custom, however, not to award the prizes until autumn and then there is no special occasion at which the names of the winners are announced together. As a result most students never even hear...
...Physiology with a salary of four hundred dollars. It is expected that these men will give the mornings of the collegiate year to research, and the afternoons to the direction of undergraduate students in experimental physiology, under the supervision of a professor of the department. These men will thus gain experience in the administration of a large laboratory as well as instruction in the methods of investigation and practice in presenting the subject to younger students...
...place later than July 2 and it was thought that the Cornell crew would need at least a week between races. The final choice of date was left to Harvard. The twenty-fifth is satisfactory to Cornell so the University crew yesterday decided on that date in order to gain the longest possible time at Poughkeepsie. As most attention is paid to the speed of a crew at the end of its period of training, and as the conditions at Poughkeepsie are very favorable for time rows, the weeks spent there in immediate preparation for the race are the most...
...report of the dean shows for the academic year 1895-96 a gain of 74 students over the preceding year. The number of students registered was 358, divided as follows...