Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Poor time is the result of want of training. If prizes were given only on condition that a certain minimum time is made, men would be forced to exert themselves and the distances would be covered in shorter time...
...April circular, containing notice of the School's attempt at self-support, there had been one hundred and sixty applications; this number immediately fell to seven paying applicants. A guaranty fund of $3,000 had been raised, but this still left a probable deficit of $3,000; and a minimum of thirty paying scholars was needed. This last failure to secure funds for the School occasioned a final circular from Mr. Agassiz, the Director of the School, from which we quote the following...
...earnestly hoped that many will enter this tournament, as from their number the "fighting staff" of the Club will be chosen. The prizes will consist of sets of chessmen, of a minimum value of five dollars each...
...table. After careful deliberation, the students should be separated into classes, or divisions, according to their several characteristics. One body should be composed of those who ate with the most finished elegance. A second should consist of such as were able to consume a maximum of food in a minimum of time. The young gentlemen who habitually disregarded the ordinary distinction between knives and forks should form a third. And other divisions might be created at the discretion of the committee. Care should be taken to perfect every man in the peculiar branch of table manners for which...
...evil in the French studies has in a great measure been done away with by the acuteness and good sense of the Professor, but we fear that, especially in the Sophomore electives, these studies are pursued with little effort, and the benefit derived by the student is at its minimum...