Word: got
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crews that ran up North Ave., yesterday afternoon, got pretty thoroughly drenched...
...term and are desirous simply of passing the examinations; but there, the best scholars, those who are working for the prizes, are the men who avail themselves most frequently of a tutor assistance; indeed, it is considered impossible for any one to get a scholarship, unless he has got through a certain amount of cramming at the hands of a professional coach...
...board, is not nearly so great, the large numbers at the city colleges rendering co-operation much easier, and enabling the students to procure better board at a less cost. It is possible to get as good board for $4 a week here at Memorial Hall as could be got at Amherst or any other college for $5 or $6. Tuition ranges all the way from $12 per year at Oberlin, Ohio, to $200 at Columbia; at Brown, Bowdoin, Princeton and Williams, it is $75; at Amherst $100, at Yale $140, and at Harvard $150. By adding to these main...
...writer in a recent number of Education has an interesting article upon the benefits which might be got from the study of Modern Languages, if it were only properly pursued at our schools and colleges. Just at present it is the fashion among educational people to set a low value on this kind of study. Facility in speaking two or more languages is admitted to be a desirable attainment, because of the practical uses to which the accomplishment may be put. It is recognized, too, that the study of Modern Languages is the only means of getting at the treasures...
...college. At Harvard there was a schedule of fifty-five offences punishable by penalties varying from two pence, for absence from prayers, to two pounds ten shillings, for absence from town for a month. If a man was absent from recitation, it cost him 1s. 6d.; if he got drunk, the penalty was no greater. Going to meeting before the ringing of the bell was an offence, and the over-prompt student was fined 6d. The penalty for playing cards was 5s. for graduates, 2s. 6d. for undergraduates. And so on down the list...