Word: possession
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many respects much more scientific. An eight-oared crew is much more difficult to get well together, but a four requires of its crew a thorough knowledge of watermanship, and a delicate control of the oar, which but few men who have rowed exclusively in eights ever possess...
...good purpose and cost but little. This method of carrying the examination papers to the candidates, instead of obliging all candidates to travel to Cambridge, only dates from 1876; it has been gradually extended, and bids fair to become the normal method for large academies and for cities which possess schools capable of preparing boys for this university...
...January, there is a very able article on the college of today, in which the writer advances some very sensible and timely views on the subject of college and university education. He begins by asking whether the most of people are better citizens and better men and women for possessing this higher culture, and says in reply to his question: "Now it must be admitted that a college can do harm and that culture may be a bad thing. Not a true college or a noble culture, mind you. But it has become an axiom among philosophers that the finer...
...possess an aching void, By proper medicine taking...
...that do not bring one into contact with books and especial care should be taken to correct this fault at the outset. Some special courses of reading as fiction or biography, followed out during a whole lerm or year, will probably give the best results, but few of us possess such a methodical turn of mind that we care to keep in the same rut very long at a time. Still whether one reads with some special end in view or does an indiscriminate skirmishing among the different departments, the principal thing is to read. In most cases some particular...