Word: margin
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...practical advantage of the most radical reform exists only in theory. Of course, any system allowing greater freedom is sure to find sturdy partisans; but the desirability of voluntary recitations has not yet been proved. What the effect of throwing open these Elysian fields may have on the "margin of cultivation" (to quote our amiable friend, Mrs. Fawcett) is uncertain; but a judicious use of the privilege will doubtless make the students' labor easier; a man may get through many subjects, with a recitation now and then, and perhaps get as high a per cent as now, by making...
...student has to obtain "one half of the total maximum mark for the whole course from the time of his admission" to entitle him to the degree of A. B. This is a rather sudden and unexpected rise, and with such an extended "margin" as fifty per cent and the mark-et so variable we need not be astonished if "suspensions" are of frequent occurrence...
...College "Theory of Rent" has for a long time been a mystery, but it is now found to be modelled upon Ricardo's; for the rent has been steadily increasing while the "Margin of Cultivation" has been descending...