Word: himselfe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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It is interesting to note, in President Eliot's report, what have been the results of the new method of admission examinations adopted by a vote of the faculty in 1886. The members of the last entering class have had unusual advantages in their admission examinations, in that it was...
"All these measures have been steps toward a goal which all must acknowledge to be desirable of attainment. All have marked the change form the narrow atmosphere and petty restrictions of a school in which the result is to extract from the pupil a fixed amount of work and exact...
"As regards the great body of undergraduates the reforms have been received as they were offered; here as elsewhere responsibility has had its educating effect, and the student who formerly regarded it as his duty to take the full number of 'cuts' permitted without punishment, under the new regime loses...
5. Steadman-164 pounds. Loses control of himself at both ends of the stroke. Should sit up to his work better and not reach around.
At the most remote period at which we have the slightest historical knowledge of Greece, the oracle at Delphi has been an object of peculiar importance. To the ancient Greeks it was a real source of communication between this and another world. They were sincere in the divinity of the...