Word: reach
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gives us great pleasure to call attention to the announcement of the lectures on subjects of finance and political economy which are to be given by the Hon. Hugh McCulloch in Sanders Theatre. It is certainly a great privilege to have such valuable lectures brought within easy reach, and to be enabled to listen to a gentleman who has made such a name in this department. We are glad to learn also that this course, if successful, will be the beginning of a series of University Lectures, given under the control of the University, but supported by outside subscriptions...
...absolute necessity. But in order that there may be no need of taking any steps backward, the Faculty wisely "make haste slowly" in their reform. For this reason we have no fault to find that all the courses for the Freshman year are still prescribed. The reform will reach this class in due time. We believe, however, that it is an error to require a greater number of hours in the first year, - in studies, too, in which the student is deprived of a selection. There is good ground also for the complaint often heard respecting the severe requirements...
...student eagerly steps forward. "If he were only in Matthews, now," says he, "he could get down on all fours, crawl through the entry, break in two doors, and so reach the fire-escape...
...from the knowledge to be administered all evil effects. From the gymnasia - preparatory schools with a seven years' course - the candidate is admitted into the university with a stock of knowledge manufactured on the above principles. But in spite of these precautions the spirit of the nineteenth century does reach the susceptible youths, and the consequence is that the students are plagued with communism, socialism, nihilism, and other isms, keeping the "courts" in constant session...
...establishment of the several grades, honors may influence the work not only of those who are studying for a Commencement part or for summa cum laude, but of every man whose marks are over seventy per cent; for prizes of some sort will be within easy reach...