Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...counted, nor are those of special students. The students in the Lawrence Scientific School are so few that it matters little whether they are counted or not; but as Harvard this year registers nearly if not quite 100 new special students, it would be fair, according to the Yale method of computation, to call the entering class at Cambridge over 400 strong. The exact figures cannot of course be known until after the pending examinations are completed. If any material increase is made this year in the number of students in the Harvard professional schools, the whole number of students...
...Bruce. He has made the tedious agreeable, and compressed eighty thousand lines into a sentence; indeed, with the exception of his "Catullus" of last year, we do not remember any critical article of his that is better He tells us among other things that by an intricate method of skipping, the "Bharata" may be read in ninety days; what exercise for a novelist! And yet he seems at home in this sea of words and dallies with its pollysyllabic names. The whole epic is compressed into a dozen pages; the fewer the better fare.' A somewhat weak poem...
...contributor or he system wrong, all he can do is to refuse to contribute the next year. Thus if the club has run into debt the only redress for those who support it is to run it still further into debt, by refusing to contribute. The ineffectiveness of this method of redress is therefore apparent at once, and there seems to be no other method which can be employed. The contributors are at the mercy of the manager and captain. The latter is not chosen with reference to his business ability, and ought not to be. The former is chosen...
...very nice to have beaten Yale on Wednesday, but the method adopted of celebrating the victory was no credit to the University. - Cambridge Chronicle...
...Princeton College learnt that it takes money to win victories from other colleges. It is about time that those men who imagine that they support the team by betting on them, learnt the falsity of their position. If some of the men who supported the athletic team by this method had given a little of their spare, cash to the association, the results would have paid even from their selfish financial point of view...