Word: retainable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University has been called to the position of superintendent of the public schools of New York City. The trustees, however, at a meeting held Saturday, decided to do all in their power to retain President Gilman...
...Debating the question of the relation of the committee to the debating clubs was thoroughly discussed and settled. It was decided that hereafter all the details of the intercollegiate debates will be left with the clubs as in former years. The committee will settle all questions of policy and retain the vote power. It was the unanimous feeling of the committee that its work should be to suggest and to assist the clubs rather than in any way to interfere with their plans...
...Proposed system would retain any advantages of present method.- (1) Better means for training students to state concisely what they know when called upon.- (a) Owing to greater frequency of tests.- (b) A more regular systematic training.- (2) A comprehensive view of year's work equally well gained in proposed system.- (a) Uniform standard of work maintained.- (b) A connected, interdependent system of examinations...
...conventional comic opera style. The dialogue contains few novelties and becomes rather monotonous toward the end. Moreover the play does not seem to be evenly balanced, all of the action excepting the denouement itself coming in the first act. For this reason the second act fails to retain the interest of the spectator, and seems almost an anti-climax...
...Columbia 'varsity crew has been rowing the full stroke. Some of the men are rowing in excellent form individually, but the work of the crew as a whole has greatly to be improved. The positions of the men are still uncertain. Probably six of the old crew will retain their seats, and the two vacant places, 7 and 5, will be filled with new men. MacDonald, Hall and McCloud are the best of the green material. At present the average weight of the men is almost as high as that of last year. If they keep on increasing they will...