Word: reaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...being made) been arranged according to merit. At Oxford the arrangement has been into classes according to merit, the successful men being arranged alphabetically in each class, so that it is not known, unless the examiners give private information, where a man really stands in the class he has reached. Students are the more ambitious to reach as high a class as possible, because fellowships and success, in such a profession as schoolmastering, depend, to a considerable extent, upon such rank...
...building. The Record also has lately been agitating this question; and now we learn from the Yale News that, "In each entry of Durfee one of the upmost story rooms is to be provided on the Elm-street side with a suitably attached knotted rope long enough to reach the ground. In each of the old buildings and in Farnam much the same contrivance is to be adopted in each entry, the rope, however, being attached at the highest of the hallway. In the old chapel an iron ladder is to be permanently attached in the rear, reaching from...
...snowfall in Austria has been so great that in many places the drifts reach the telegraph wires...
...price of board, the directors direct the steward not to allow the price of board per week to exceed five dollars, and that they request the corporation to guarantee that the price shall not exceed that sum, and, moreover, to guarantee that when the membership of the association shall reach 450 men the price of board shall not exceed $4.75, and that if the membership reaches 600 the price shall not exceed...
Commander John P. Cheyne, an Arctic explorer, arrived in Boston yesterday. He is soliciting aid for his scheme to reach the North Pole by balloon...