Word: gained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Many of the French students are paid to study in this school in order that the government may have well-trained librarians and keepers of the archives. Any one with a diploma from the schooI can gain a position in the public service. The three men who graduate highest in the class are entitled to a pension of 600 francs a year for three years. The Ecole des chartes is one of the roads which lead to the academy of inscriptions and belle-lettres...
...courses which would give them the most benefit. But it is not realized; every course has its reputation as "stiff" or as "soft," and every instructor has his reputation as a strict or easy marker. The student may have to decide between two courses with full knowledge that to gain the mark he aims at (be it 50, 70, or 90 per. cent.) will acquire two or three times as much work in one course as in the other, and this not depending on his own special fitness for either course, but because of the amount of work which...
Reports have gotten around that our crew has been rowing in very fast time. From one college paper they pass to another, until by continued reiteration they gain weight and are believed even by some Yale men themselves. To some extent this was the case last year, and many were heard to say after the race why, I thought they had made such good time in practice. Why had they thought so? simply from believing rumors which start originally from no one (but the originator) knows where. The fact was that the crew had never done anything in practice that...
...creditable, and tends to make all intercourse between the two colleges manly and fair. The great evil of indifference, however, is shown by the elements of which the various Harvard teams are composed. Only men who have been noted for good playing, or rowing, when at school attempt to gain positions on any of our teams, and a large majority of such men in the different classes do not even try. It may be the fault of the management that not enough inducement has been held out to make the men try for positions. The position that Harvard holds...
...maximum of reward for the minimum of time, and effects plainly to be measured, seen, and felt. Dr. Sargent, of Cambridge, is the most successful among the new trainers, and the results are certainly remarkable. Given the necessary apparatus and the skilled teacher, there seems to be constant gain in both interest and vigor...