Word: reaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course you do not know how to reach it, but the accommodating assistants will inform you. You ascend the staircase and find yourself in what appears to be a very bare and uninteresting room. Be not deceived; its treasures like those of the earth, must be sought after in order to be found. There are things which must attract every one's attention, but let me say that it is a veritable paradise for cranks-I mean such cranks as coincollectors, bibliophilists and autographic fiends. How their hands must itch to see lying before their eyes such unattainable treasures...
...give practice to the 'Varsity by playing against it daily. But the usefulness by no means ceases here, it is the school in which many of the men who are to bear our colors on the field next fall receive their training. Many a man, too, who fails to reach the standard of play necessary to secure a place on the University team is induced to keep in training in the hope of being chosen for the second team, with the prospect of ultimately working his way into the coveted position on the first eleven. Now, since this junior eleven...
...walk which leads to Holmes and Jarvis fields, passing by the west side of Jefferson Physical Laboratory, is composed of such soft substance that few care to use it. The consequence is that nearly everyone who wishes to reach the fields by this path walks on the grass by the side, and will soon tramp it down so that next spring the appearance of that part of the grounds will be careless and unfelt. We cannot blame the students for preferring soft grass to dusty gravel walks. The college authorities should have the paths watered and rolled...
...required to obtain an average mark of 40 per cent, on his year's work ; and men who were unfortunate enough to receive conditions, could secure their removal by attaining a like mark in such courses. The present change in the regulations makes it obligatory on students to reach an average of 50 to be entitled to promotion, and also demands that half the maximum reached in a course must be obtained to ensure the removal of a condition. This change is a step in the right direction. Under the new rules for electives, an undergraduate is allowed to substitute...
...estimated, by the Commissioner of Education, that the total value of the grounds, buildings and apparatus of the 375 colleges in the United States will reach...