Word: margin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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HALF-MILE RUN.An easy victory for Hale, '88, who received a liberal margin of 40 yards, over Brandt, '85, in 2 minutes 8 2-5 seconds...
...mark alloted to each question in the examination paper in Natural History 2, was printed in the margin opposite the several questions...
...furniture scheme described in their circular, and the greater ease with which foreign text books will be procured. The expenses and estimates for next year necessitate, in the opinion of the officers, the raising of the annual fee from $2.00 to $2.50. but to compensate for this the margin of profit on goods bought will be even smaller than before. Everything seems to point to a year of unexampled prosperity for the Co-operative Society...
...Harvard is mainly the advantage offered by the elective system. We think, moreover, that this is recognized by our faculty; for within two years the courses of study here in the academy have been materially advanced and so arranged that in the senior year there is now quite a margin for optionals. Our faculty are not accustomed to do anything without mature deliberation, yet endeavor to be always abreast of the times; and to our mind these changes have been made largely in the interest of the Harvard element, or in pursuance of the Harvard spirit. They certainly...
...former soldier of the Confederate army. The author naturally speaks with some enthusiasm of his own side, and tends to exaggerate the undoubtedly great powers of the army of Northern Virginia. Some youth,-perhaps it would be better to say, small boy, of patriotic spirit has written in the margin of the volume, at various places, comments of which the following are specimens: "Good, very good!" "Oh, of course," "A good one," "Right you are," "A trifle exaggerated, friend," "How astonishing," etc., etc, Moreover, this patriotic person has taken pains to prevent his comments from being erased, by writing them...