Word: obtainable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee for the coming class day at Yale will send a delegate to England to obtain a graft of ivy from Westminster...
...Brown nine are planntng a trip among the Southern colleges in the spring, to enable them to obtain practice against college teams before they begin their struggle for the Inter-collegiate championship...
...other esteemed contemporary, the Lampoon, is, like its sister sheet, the Advocate, seriously involved and compelled to make a public appeal for help. Only a little over a year, it was said that the Lampoon was on a very firm basis financially; but this year it has not obtained the support from the college which it deserves. Students cannot hope to see the smiling face of Lampy once in two weeks, unless they are willing to give the editors their financial support. With a thousand under-graduates, and only three college publications, all occupying different spheres of usefulness, there ought...
...first place, the most striking innovation to be noted is the fact that it would be possible for a man to obtain the degree of Bachelor of Arts without having the slightest acquaintance with either Latin or Greek. This could be done by choosing either of the combinations (c) or (d) given below. The former entrance requirements would be, in substance, retained in combination (b), but with some important modifications, which may be briefly summoned up by saying that the amount of Latin to be read would be diminished, while the Greek and Latin composition which has been a lion...
...pass their entrance examinations, but which falls far short of any desirable standard. This state of affairs is attributable to the fact that the preparatory schools fail to make adequate provisions for a thorough study of these branches. It is now proposed to compel the candidates for admission to obtain a suitable "fit," by demanding a laboratory examination in addition to the usual written examination. The men would, moreover, be required to hand in note-books containing full data of the experiments performed during the school course, signed by the head master of their respective schools. This step would...