Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they are at all interested in general literature. As a proof that such an interest does exist, we hope that a large number will send in their lists at once. It certainly will not entail any great amount of trouble on any one but ourselves, and the result may prove of considerable interest. Once more, we wish to say that all lists must reach us by tomorrow night, so that we can forward them to New York...
...Renter, '84, and Mr. J. Marquand, '85, will represent Harvard's lacrosse interests at the inter collegiate convention in New York tomorrow. The result of last year's Yale game will be protested...
...must defend Plato, as to plead that his view of education and studies is in the general, as it seems to me, sound enough, and fitted for all sorts and conditions of men, whatever their pursuits may be. 'An intelligent man,' says Plato, 'will prize those studies which shall result in his soul getting soberness, righteousness and wisdom, and will disregard the rest.' I cannot consider that a bad description of the aim of education, and of the motives which should govern us in the choice of studies, whether we are preparing ourselves for a hereditary seat in the English...
...veneer. "Are you sound at the core" is their text. Second, the new A. B. is placed in a quasi electric light of criticism which magnifies imperfections and leaves beauties normal size. Third, the A. B. herself possesses some of the characteristics of an unsatisfied molecule, and as a result of special training, exacts from the world in general something more stimulating than mediocrity...
...mediocre-in fact an indifferently clever A. B. is not a rare occurrence. In the case of most people, the boundary line of attainment has an extremely short radius. Tearing intellects do not grow wild, and the dilution of the essence of intelligence may be attributed as the result of dividing it among an increasing population...