Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Maximum Section may read, before Monday of next week, as far as "Hydrostatics," omitting the description of Aiwood's machine...
...others deserved them too, or not, depends upon the answer to one question, and that is this : Have the Faculty a certain fixed per cent, the attainment of which, under any and all circumstances, gives Highest Honors; or is the per cent of the best man taken as the maximum, and all other per cents required to be within a certain number of marks of it, in order to gain the Highest Honors? In other words, is the scale on which Final Honors are given a fixed one, or does it vary with each class? The result of the last...
...plan is like that of a horse-car company with its horses, which gives the brutes the minimum of oats and the maximum of work, and has, by long experience, learned to keep the unhappy animals nicely balanced on a knife edge, between death from starvation and prostration from overwork...