Word: limitation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...take for your aim to strengthen the parts that are weak, or do you seek to develop more the parts already strong? Is the public ready for a steatopygean education. They like it in Africa. Is a man complete if he be a superior mathematician and that be the limit of his knowledge...
...have already given liberally; and there are others, probably, who will derive benefit from the society's continuance, who have not subscribed a cent. Nevertheless, it is not the time now to hesitate over such considerations as these. If there is any man who has not given to the limit of what he would pay rather than have the society go down, he should, without waiting to see what others will do, go to the society's rooms and complete his subscription...
...much for the absolutely necessary expenses. What a student will actually spend, depends entirely upon himself. The limit might be placed at between $4,000 and $5,000 at Harvard, and much less at other colleges where the temptation to spend money is less. Mr. Thwing, in an article in Scribner's Monthly, several years ago, placed the average annual expenses of a student at the various colleges as follows: Harvard, $1,000; Yale, $1,000; Amherst, $700; Princeton, $600; Brown, Bowdoin or Williams, $500. While the average Yale man may not spend as much as the average Harvard...
...laid out on the Agassiz Museum grounds, and also about eight grass courts of medium worth on the grounds of the Divinity School. For these courts, permission would have to obtained from the government of these departments of the University. This would make 65 double courts, which is the limit that can be reached with the ground that we now have...
...should like to call the attention of the skaters in the college to the notice of the Hockey Club, printed in another column. The club gives promise of having so many members that it will probably limit the number of players in the practice games on Fresh Pond to those who belong to it, and therefore all skaters who wish to play will find it for their advantage to join the club. Old players, especially, are invited, for, if there is any skating, the hockey club will try to form a team to play some of the out-of-town...