Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Dancing as a Revelation of Character," or upon the "Limit of the Diaphanous in Dress." I tried the diversion of repeating my fables for French 1, but - mirabile dictu - found no amusement in that. Were examinations anything but vexation of spirit? Should we ever be able to get "the maximum of knowledge with the minimum of grind"? Happy thought! Behold a royal road to learning! Let all your friends be grinds, - grinds pure, undefiled. Their brains, you know, when crammed for an examination, are only sponges dipped in a saturated solution of knowledge: what does not drip into your...
...judges at the Boylston Speaking divided the maximum mark of 100 as follows: Manner, including Attitude and Gesture, 20; Voice, Enunciation, and Pronunciation, 20; Intelligence, 30; Feeling, including Pathos, Passion, and Force...
JUNIORS may obtain their forensics with their marks for the year (maximum 300) on Tuesday, February 25, at 3 1/2 o'clock...
...number of students and electives have, for the present, practically attained their maximum, and, for some time to come, no great extension of the term of the semi-annuals need be feared...
...express in these two squares of metrical lines, wrought in the painful prolixity of the sonnet, a form of verse which suggests a slow minuet of rhythms stepping in measured cadences over a mosaic pavement of rhymes, and which not rarely combines a minimum of thought with a maximum of labor...