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Word: give (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...confident smile, I was informed, "Your paper was perfect, - not a single error; your mark is eighty-six per cent." "Why," said I, in a discouraged way," "I thought you said that I did a perfect paper." "So I did," said the scientist, in an angry voice; " I never give a higher mark than eighty-six." I wanted to ask him if 86 = 100 with the Faculty in reckoning up averages, but did not dare to. I afterwards learned that 86 = 86 in their computations; so I fail to see the justice of that mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOW-WATER MARK. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

...safely presumed that all reform in regard to the matter of the green doors on University is hopeless, and we must gracefully submit to the blows on the face which they continually give us. But why cannot we have both the outer doors open at recitation-time? The pushing and crowding and frequent collisions which occur every hour are anything but pleasant. To be sure, those who are going in never hurry; but the numbers of those who are eager to get out keep many waiting and cause great confusion. All this inconvenience might be remedied by leaving both doors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

...admirable work on Examinations, Professor Latham tells us that open scholarships may be regarded as "the prizes which give life to the whole system of instruction in a college." Some consideration of the effects which would be likely to follow their introduction at Harvard is reserved for a concluding communication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

...scholarship; C. D., on the contrary, who has in the savings-bank just money enough to pay his college bills, cannot ask for this privilege. And yet A. B., it may be, has a rich uncle, who, as is tacitly understood, will see that he wants nothing, and will give him a salaried place in his counting-room the moment he graduates; while C. D. must incur the cost of studying a profession, and will have a mother and sisters dependent upon him for support. It is needless to multiply illustrations to show that restricted scholarships may give no encouragement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

...woulde not give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AT CAMBRIDGE. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

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