Word: proves
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best, any system of graded marking is likely to prove not wholly satisfactory. On the border line between two grades there must always be a number of men whose proper rank it is extremely difficult to determine. Even assuming, what it would be unwise to assert, that examinations are absolutely reliable tests of a student's attainment, there would still be the danger of his suffering from some unintentional injustice in the marking; and upon a doubtful decision of the mark in a single course, may hinge the really important question as to the grade of the final degree...
...doubt but that our stand will be severely criticised, but it will remain firm and will in the end command respect. We hope that the action of the Cambridge authorities will prove a blessing in disguise, and that, after things have cooled down for a year, we shall again play Harvard, and a new era of good feeling in athletics will come about between the two universities...
...this fence - an honor which is accorded to freshmen only in the event of great athletic triumphs - and cheered wildly for them and their class. It is very rare indeed for such fraternal relations to exist between two successive classes, and the occasion affords only another instance to prove that the art of debating is no longer held in disrespect at Yale...
Another case of illness prevented the 'Varsity crew from rowing on the river Saturday. This time R. H. Stevenson, who has been rowing No. 4, was compelled to lay off on account of an attack of tonsilitis, which it is hoped will not prove severe. The apparent epidemic of sore throats among the different class crews, especially in the junior boat, has seriously interfered with their progress...
...experience gained in its prosecution has left me with a still firmer belief in its importance and feasibility. I congratulate you upon the results which you have already accomplished, and still more on the great opportunity which lies before you. University Extension is, I believe, destined to prove one of the greatest educational movements of the last quarter of this century. I consider it a high privilege to have been identified with its beginnings in the United States, and I sincerely regret that the pressure of other work which has the first claim on my attention does not permit...