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Word: himselfe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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THE subject of scholarships is treated by President Eliot in his late Report in a reasonable and comprehensive spirit, which - as the common phrase goes - leaves little to be desired. That something, nevertheless, remains unsaid, is the opinion of thoughtful persons whose attention has been directed to this subject. For...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

The remaining half of the class was Davidson McClure, of Philadelphia. He was an unlucky youth, awkward and clumsy, always hurting himself; in fact, it was a constant matter of wonder to all his relations how Davidson had managed to live so long. McClure was a hard student; and for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SAD TALE OF THE CLASS OF 19-. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

It is pleasant to anticipate the advantages which the machine will confer upon instructors, and the great relief it will afford them. No longer will it be necessary for the conscientious Professor to spend the Christmas vacation in examining blue books, exhausting his energies in the vain endeavor to decide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MARKING MACHINE. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

Now, it seems to me that it is the quality and not the quantity of the work that instructors should aim at when making out a paper, and not to make one feel at the end of the hour that he had done himself injustice, whereas, if he had had...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

Though never very studious after this, Motley was a brilliant linguist. He devoted most of his time to literature. Shelley and Praed were his favorite poets. He amused himself by writing sketches, poems, fragments of plays, etc., some of which were printed in the papers of the day, and two...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOTLEY AT HARVARD. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

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