Word: resultant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...result of conscientious adherence to a code like this was very remarkable; and the peculiar ideas of the mound-builders are so clearly shown in a fable, which appears to have been one of their household words, that I shall conclude this brief article with a translation of some of the most prominent parts...
...wrong; he was therefore obliged to choose between rejecting the directions of the coach and retaining his own method, or accepting a measure which he believed would prove a mistake, and for the failure of which he would be responsible. He naturally chose the former course, and the result has been the withdrawal of the coach. It is evident from this that either captain or coach should be invested with full authority and responsibility by the Boat-Club. No person cares to undergo the trouble of coaching a crew unless he can have everything to his own satisfaction...
...brief or no delays in serving the different courses in their proper times, and whatever exceptional delays have been caused in the past were due to defective dummy or other kitchen arrangements for sending up the food into the hall, and not to a lack of waiters. The result, then, of the Directors' investigation is, a general commendation of the management of the Dining-Hall, and the fair interpretation of the figures and facts collected by them can support no other result. As to that mythical "contract" which a writer in the Advocate paraded in all its broken splendor, where...
...result of the practice of this theory - whether observed in national or in college politics - is not all that can be wished for. It cannot be denied that offices are frequently assigned to persons totally unfit to hold them; and while it would be folly for a student to venture to advance his opinions upon the proper government of a great nation, an expression of his theory of the proper constitution of a college class is by no means so ridiculous...
...Latin, 8 Greek, 9 German, and 10 a whole or part of Mathematics, taking in their place electives in Latin, Greek. Mathematics, German, French, Italian, Spanish, History, Music, and Natural History. Voluntary attendance at recitations is most ingeniously and elaborately discussed, every possible variety of statistics being given. The result is summed up by saying that the average number of absences was two or three times as great as under the old system, though the influence of the change upon the average scholarship of the class was imperceptible either for good or evil. Those who obtained more than seventy-five...