Word: proved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...curved spheres. In future, pitchers will deliver them straight at the bat so that nothing may baffle the aim of the batsman, who can thus convert his ash into a catapult, by whose means he may kill the pitcher, or anybody else on the field at will, to prove how much of an athlete he has become since he joined college. [Clipper...
This would meet the cry of the students for more room and at the same time return to the college a larger sum as yearly rent than could be obtained by investing the money elsewhere in mortgages, real estate or bonds. To prove that this latter fact is clearly so we have only to cite the case of one of the dormitories in the yard. Take Matthews for an example. This building cost, twelve years ago, about $100,000, perhaps a little more. Its net returns for the year 1883 were nearly $10,000, almost 10 per cent...
...case, he leaves his rubbers in his room and in consequence reaches the library with wet feet. Here he sits for an hour or so at least and next morning has a cough or cold to help him in his grinding. Plank walks to the library would prove a great blessing. As it is now, not a path leading to that building is not covered on a mild day with a layer of melting slush or mud almost as deep. The remedy is simple and not expensive. With plank walks in some places and not in others a false sense...
...points between six large schools which habitually send boys to Harvard. The statistics embrace a period of eight years for the private, and ten years for the endowed and public schools. The scholarship shown in the entrance examinations and in their work for the four years is given. Facts prove that there is not so sure a connection between good work as a schoolboy and good work as a college student as there ought to be, many of the ill-prepared boys surpassing during college life many of the well-prepared. In the freedom of college-life differences between individuals...
...throwing up the game of life and admitting that the world is worse off the older it gets. It is the business of the true culture to point out the landmarks that verify progress, to add to the experience of the individual the experience of the race, to prove that no effort is possible without its result-and no result possible without effort; to send the young man out into life equipped to make a place in it, and with faith which shall never grow old that whatsoever of good, however humble, he puts into the world shall abide...