Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...under the elective system men are tempted to, and actually do, take a "soft" courses with the expectation of getting high marks, and so "freezing" on to a big fat scholarship. This has become so large an evil that the high scholars almost invariably shun very valuable but difficult courses, except as extras...
...present it is but speaking the honest truth, that there is very little true scholarship at Harvard, little desire to learn for learnings sake, and but very little respect for high scholarship...
Princeton is to have a toboggan slide on the field this side of the University Athletic Grounds. The slide will be forty feet high and one hundred and sixty feet long...
...this country and of Great Britain. These scholars have especially commended the power displayed in bringing Plato's meaning in plain, but remarkably pure English, a point in which they award the palm of excellence to this author, who is now known to be a Boston lady of high position, no less eminent for her generous support of works of practical benevolence, than for her classical scholarship. The present writer does not hesitate to pronounce the translation of the Georgias in the present volume to be fully equal in scholarly rendering to its predecessors. It will, we venture to predict...
...look back on the past and forward to the future. We have come to a crisis. It is time to meet it, if we are to keep up the character of our colleges in the view of parents and the community generally, and to make them places of high education where cultivated tastes and refined manners are acquired. I think the colleges on the Eastern seaboard should come to an understanding with each other. It is their duty at present not to cast reflections on each other, but to unite to correct the abuses which have sprung up in connection...