Word: list
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cases the scholar's ideal of success is often different from the popular ideal. Now that the ancient institution of wranglers is practically being abolished at Cambridge in England, considerable discussion is being called forth upon this question in the English press, and the recent publication of a complete list of senior wranglers seems to confirm the popular prejudice about the worthlessness of university honors as an index to future success. The last Cornhill Magazine says on the matter : "Our conclusion is a very simple one. It is simply this, that university distinctions are attainable by the same qualities which...
...have received from the Pope Manufacturing Company an advance copy of their catalogue for 1882. It contains a fine description of their new "Expert Columbia," a model machine, designed as a medium-weight roadster for expert riders. The list of sundries is larger and the prices very reasonable...
There was lively discussion in the Senate yesterday over the bill to place Gen. Grant on the retired list...
...very urgent, for exploration in this country is being carried on so rapidly that soon all the best specimens of aboriginal civilization will have been collected; and at present our museum has no funds whatever for making collections. Theodore Lyman, J. C. Phillips and Stephen Salisbury head the list with $500 each...
...recurrence of examinations invites attention again to our system of marking at Harvard. During the interval between the mid-years and the annuals, we are gradually informed as to the results of the first examinations, while the annual rank-list gives the results for the year. Many men are studying with special objects in view, and in the conditions under which scholarships and honors are granted, we often find an entirely arbitrary standard of excellence. There are always men "on the line" who are exultant in case of success, but who suffer corresponding grief in case of failure; in both...