Word: proof
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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SOPHOMORE THEMES.Theme vi. will be due May 8. Subject : An Argument. Scheme of synopsis : 1. Proposition. 2. Proof from (1) Antecedent Probability, a, b, etc.; (2) Sign, a, b, etc, 3. Example...
...will come as a matter of course. And yet it is evident that some preliminary training at college will enable a man to make infinitely more out of our literature than he could do without. The ever-growing number of men who take the English courses here are a proof of what we have been saying-that men are now really beginning to realize the importance of this study of our own literature, while the ever-growing interest that is aroused is certainly a strong proof of the usefulness of such courses to the students...
Dartmouth is to have a new chapel at a cost of $30,000, and a library at a cost of $50,000. The latter building is to be absolutely fire-proof and will have a capacity of 120,000 volumes. The project of building a law school has not yet been decided upon...
...compare Harvard's choice with that of the body of readers of the country led us to ask the lists to be sent to us. It certainly seems to be a matter that should interest Harvard men, if they are at all interested in general literature. As a proof that such an interest does exist, we hope that a large number will send in their lists at once. It certainly will not entail any great amount of trouble on any one but ourselves, and the result may prove of considerable interest. Once more, we wish to say that all lists...
...Every scholar, that on proof is found able to read the original of the Old and New Testament into the Latin tongue, and to resolve them logically, withal being of honest life and conversation, and at any public act hath the approbation of the overseers and master of the college, may be invested with his first degree...