Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their inferior in some other branch of work, far ahead of them in marks. The rule is impolitic, as it is a standing invitation to take only such courses as one feel he is reasonably sure of a good grade in. A man who has received high marks for two or three years hardly cares to court a D by taking a subject that he realizes he may get that mark on,- no matter though the course be both desirable and beneficial. The rule stands as a temptation to take snap courses and as a beacon light to earn...
...first article on this subject printed recently, the average annue expenditure is calculated, and at the end, Professor Palmer speaks of the high charges for room rent and tuition at Harvard, suggesting that it might be thought that this places a Harvard education out of the reach of the poor man. Continuing he says...
...subject of college expenses has been much debated lately. At our commencement dinner a year ago our chairman insisted that the ideal of the University should be plain living and high thinking. And certainly there is apt to be something vulgar, as well as vicious, in the man of books who turns away from winning intellectual wealth and indulges in tawdry extravagance. Yet every friend of Harvard is obliged to acknowledge with shame that the loose spender has a lodging in our yard...
There was no attempt made to line the fair lines until 3 o'clock, when the game should have been called. This took time, and game was finally called at 3.30 with the fair lines still wet and slippery, and pegs a foot high stuck all over the field, which Mr. Carpenter and I went round and pulled up. This was sufficiently careless, but one of the Tech half-backs found the leaving of a marking string lying across the field more dangerous still when he took a header over it during the game. Home plate, as I said before...
...latter's expectations have been fully realized. No one would to-day assert that the Monthly is superfluous, and everyone feels the elevating influence it has had on the rest of serious college journalism. This year gives promise of work that will be in no way below the high standard o excellence which this magazine ha hitherto upheld...