Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...represent their own class during the summer, or even to take a good position in the Club crews. Too many wait till late in the winter or till the spring to begin work in earnest, and then, as it has been often proved, it is too late to obtain sufficient endurance for the ordeal of a long race...
...students, and also dealers at the regatta, and by this means we should avoid having the almost endless variety of shades which are called "crimson" by the venders thurst upon us at such a time. Moreover, by employing this firm, we have a place where we can always obtain the true color, and be perfectly sure that we are getting a good article...
FROM an Examination Book on Sophocles' Antigone we obtain the following translation of verses...
...play their part well! But besides these hundred and fifty graduates, every closing of the college term in June sets free six hundred students, who are soon scattered to every part of this country, and, we may almost say, to every corner of the world. If we could obtain a leaf from the mental note-book of each man, we might form a cosmopolitan scrap-book of experience that would be amusing, not to say instructive. O for a telescope of unlimited power, to see our friends of the midnight oil "clothed in purple and fine linen," displaying their charms...
...requirements for a degree should be a certain number of examinations on required and elective studies, and students could take a degree whenever they had passed all their examinations, whether in three or five years. All students must obtain over 40% to avoid a condition; an average of 50% for a degree; over 60% on each examination for an "A" division; over 70% as an average for the Rank List; 75% to be a candidate for honors for an Essay at Commencement; 80% for a Disquisition; 85% for a Dissertation; 90% for an Oration; 95% for a "Summa cum laude...