Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...step further and make one division, viz: "passed"; or even still further and make no division at all? The fallacy of their argument lies in the fact that they simply change the robe of the evil instead of the evil itself. The burden of the examination still remains. They might as well ask the instructor to mark the books with a red pencil instead of a blue one. It would lighten the weight of the examination just as much...
...Before the Law" have been written, - books that must fail to accomplish their end. A knowledge of common law to be valuable must be gained from practical sources. A competent and thorough instructor, the very best that could be procured, who would devote his interest to such a course might make it the most popular, perhaps, of all the college courses. As a technical knowledge such as that to be gained in a law school would not be required, the course would be patronized chiefly by those who did not in the future purpose to study law. This fact would...
...life or power. His finish is weak, and he lets his knees wobble. The trouble with the crew as a whole is, that they do not get a hard enough finish, and that they are very slow in starting forward. Then the time of all, except the stern men, might be improved on without harming anything. Of the crew that is rowing now, Adams, Hale, Purdon, Churchill, and Thomas have rowed in one or more races. Bancroft has never pulled in a race, but was second substitute at New London last spring. All the others...
...health resort in England they steep sea weed for an hour in boiling water, and then cooling the water slightly, admit the bather, who remains in twenty minutes, and comes out, it is alleged, greatly strengthened and refreshed. This might be an advantageous improvement over the present method of rubbing down weary athletes with whiskey...
...after all, people do not select the large colleges for their sons on account of the educational facilities offered so much as for the social advantages. As an example of the superior educational advantages of large universities, I might mention the case of two brothers, one of whom graduated from Rochester, and the other from Yale. The Yale man became very famous as a base-ball pitcher, but is now picking up a living as a cowboy. The Rochester man is a professor in a medical college at Cleveland, and is rapidly rising in his profession, although he has found...