Word: minutest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unfortunate, has been tried for years by large classes without any serious disaster; he should remember, too, that warning was given that the experiment was dangerous, and that being so warned, no one should undertake it without the greatest care, without first becoming acquainted with all the minutest details. Was his son thus careful? We have very good reason for thinking that...
...advantages, but none of them have proved particularly precise or accurate. Recently, however, a device has been resorted to among professional oarsmen which bids fair to accomplish the desired end. Photographs of crews in motion have been taken by the instantaneous process, and so clearly brought out to the minutest detail, that fair and accurate criticism of style has been rendered possible. Of course, in the case of the class crews, such trouble is scarcely worth the while, but it seems to us that the university might profit to no small extent by acting on the suggestion. Who can tell...
Full two hundred years ago the authorities were as much concerned for our welfare as to-day. With that same painstaking care which has led the modern athletic committee to investigate the minutest details of our out-of-door life, even to the making of long journeys at the expense of the college, the corporation of old inspected and regulated the life of the Puritan collegians of the 17th century. They even felt called upon to say exactly what they should eat, and what they should drink, as the records still plainly show. On June 23, 1692, the corporation held...
...rules us. It is upon his words that our privileges depend. With his whims change the whole system and method of instruction. Not only this, but he places a military officer whom he calls Curator, in general charge over us, and through him directs the minutest details with an iron hand. The instructors' chairs are not indeed bought and sold or given to absolutely ignorant members of the military as they were in Nicholas I.'s time. But the professors, however learned or talented, under the restrictions of the Czar, are forced into mere educating machines to teach by rote...
...case at Harvard. This fact led to a lengthy discussion in the columns of various newspapers some time ago, in which the insignificant number of bequests that had been made of recent years to Yale was attributed to it. Harvard, on the other hand, has laid open the minutest details of her administration to the public scrutiny, and thus has invited public confidence. The result of this has been the numerous bequests that have been bestowed upon her during the past. Men of wealth feel greater readiness in endowing an institution of this sort than one where the whole government...