Word: obtainable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...clipping concerning alleged secrecy in our athletics. We are glad to see from the Yale Courant, that the secrecy long in use at Yale is in a fair way to become abolished. It was impossible a year ago for any one of the plebs, as we might say, to obtain information about the progress of the teams, - "not even enough to base a sensible bet on," says the Courant moodily. If the bets alluded to were those made by Yale men last spring, we must allow that the Courant is quite correct, - and adversity probably will bring circumspection with...
...author assailed is Byron. I believe the writer to be in the wrong when he says that too much time is given to rehearsing the petty incidents of an author's life; for what is there that so excites an interest in an author as to obtain a knowledge of his private life, and then to observe to what extent his life influences his writings? The lecture-room is not the place for a consideration of style, or for making an acquaintance with an author's writings, until a careful private study of said author has been made...
...interest for some to know of the ceremonies attendant upon acquiring the degree of Ph. D. in Germany. A title which not a few of us hope to obtain. The main requirements are that the student write an extensive thesis in the study of which he makes his specialty, and that besides he be prepared to pass an oral examination in any two other subjects. For instance a medical student would write his thesis on a medical subject and stand prepared in Philosophy and Chemistry, or any two other subjects, akin to his main study...
...ours, this one of note-taking would seem to be most powerful. In the great majority of our courses text books are either wanting or are of only subordinate importance; and the student is made almost entirely dependent on his careful attention, quick perception and selective faculties to obtain in proper shape a digest of the instructor's lectures. These digests, together with the results of outside reading, give the student a collection of facts far superior to the best of the text books. This may be said advisedly for the first effect of the concentration of mind in taking...
...some hard feeling, and we want the season to open next fall with everything possible in our favor. I have tried the scheme of asking anyone who has ever played on the University team and who is now connected with the University to vote. By this means we obtained 16 (sixteen) names. To obtain a majority, a man must obtain nine votes. Several men have not voted. Three have refused to vote on the score that they are not up in the game and men; and the result is that no one has attained the necessary majority...