Word: passe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...excessive heat of final period.- (c) Men often fail to show their real knowledge.- (x) Owing to nervousness caused by issue at stake on one examination.- (3) Evil results upon students.- (a) Mental and physical strain.- (b) Moral relaxation.- (c) Encourages practice of "cramming."- (x) A knowledge sufficient to pass the examination quickly acquired and as quickly forgotten.- (2) Involves a great waste of time.- (b) Term virtually suspended for four weeks.- (a) Many days of idleness and inactivity during the period...
...Marvin '98, Stone '98 and Jackson '99. Captain Wrightington is doing most of the coaching. All the men practice sprints of 10 yards each to start in the work, running two by two. Then after lining up and falling on the ball for a short time, the quarterbacks pass balls for the backs to kick and the day's work is concluded with some place kicking...
...probable Republican nominees.- (1) Has always openly defined his attitude on currency questions: Forum, Feb., 1894.- (a) His determination alone secured the repeal of the Sherman law: Ibid.- (2) No prominent Republican aspirant has so definite a record on the currency question.- (a) Reed helped pass the Sherman law.- (b) Harrison signed the Sherman law: Cong. Record, XXI, 7264, (July 14, 1890).- (c) McKinley has "Straddled" and is "straddling": Nation, LXII, 227.- (d) Allison has "a bad record and is speechless now": Harper's, XL, 266.- (3) Cleveland is a most consistent civil service reformer: Nation, LXII, 227.- (a) Began...
...representative Republican States-(x) Massachusetts, (y) New York.- (3) It is shown by recent votes in Congress.- (b) The tariff policy of the Republican party is at present better for the country than that of the Democratic party.- (1) The Republican party has done all it could to pass the Dingley bill.- (2) This measure would have increased our revenues.- (3) It would have done away with the deficit.- (c) The Republican party is more capable of united action than the Democratic party.- (1) This is shown by their passage of the McKinley bill.- (2) It is shown by their...
...developed the best method of teaching English composition. As the school which developed the best method would be immediately followed by the other schools, there would necessarily be an improvement all along the line. Clearly then the preparatory schools should be forced to teach their pupils enough English to pass the entrance examinations instead of lowering the requirements in English to suit the convenience of the schools and thus allowing the standard to decline...