Word: keys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FOUND. In the yard, an adjustable watch key. Apply at 6 Grays...
...matters must be so shaped as to give the students the greatest possible trouble and inconvenience. On a recent evening, we are informed, two students took their boxing gloves and went down to the sparring room of the gymnasium. Finding it locked, they applied at the office for the key, and were there told that some one had taken it away, presumably one of the instructors who occupy the room. Being more than surprised at this a visit was immediately made to the gentleman in charge of the gymnasium, and from him they learned a fact which, while being...
...Presidents Porter and Eliot before the "Massachusetts Classical and High School Teachers Association." The reports are worth reading, for they give evidence of how alive American educators are becoming to the necessity of greater co-operation. In education, as in everything else, co-operation seems to be the key-note of success. The plan which President Eliot proposes of having a general board, representing all the colleges interested, to have charge of the preparation and marking of examination papers in all cases when subjects and limits can be agreed upon, is not without weight, and, if carried out, would...
These benefits of a college course may to some seem rather theoretical and intangible; but surely they are quite real. They are influences acting silently and secretly but still forcibly. They are benefits which, though unseen, are yet almost key-notes of life, as the force of gravity is the key-note of the life of the universe. To them we may also add the sociableness and friendships, always attendant upon a college career, and the critical nature and power of clear discernment, which seem to belong to college men, and by which a student is so quickly and generally...
...most natural way for the men to get possession of the paper before the examination. This, unfortunately, is seldom if ever practicable. The printing is watched with the most jealous care, and as soon as the papers come from the press they are safely placed under lock and key, where the wicked student has no hope of effecting an entrance. Knowing that to obtain a copy of the paper is not practicable, the ingenious young man, whose conscience and knowledge are both at a low ebb, prepares himself for the battle. That is, he makes his "cribs." An old-fashioned...