Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...charges would be amply covered by the sums of two hundred and fifty, and six hundred and fifty dollars, allowing a trifle over ninety cents per day as the cost of running the engines ten hours a day, which would be much more than sufficient, as this is a maximum allowance, and as the whole nine hundred lights would not be burning all these ten hours, there would be a sufficiency of electricity stored up in accumulators greatly to reduce the average running time...
...examinations are given; the men meet the instructor at certain times merely to show him their work and to obtain his advice as to its further pursuance. The student is relieved from all hack-work, and is afforded an opportunity of pursuing his special topic with the maximum freedom...
...soundness of our principle in the very face of the present marking system. For no teachers more than these appreciate the utter inadequacy and injustice of the percentage scale, with its general average. Here, all feel the necessity of a coarse scale, say, with 5 or 10 as the maximum mark...
...only the officers. The societies for study and investigation in general, show marked progress by their increased list of membership. The Dining Association in particular, which may be regarded as an investigating society sui generis, has increased in numbers. The 740 of last year has become 753, the maximum number that the Dining Hall will accommodate...
...complaint is the "special reports." The student feels that he is compelled to spend a considerable amount of time in obtaining a piece of information practically useless, at the expense of more important work. Yet if this point of the work is not done, he is given a maximum of 75 per cent., no matter how well he may do the rest of the work. The importance of the course and the necessity of doing good work in it, are recognized by all. The energy and ability of the instructor is also appreciated. Those who have elected his course...