Word: safely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...climb till noon. This is usually long enough to scale a mountain in the Tyrol. Before starting, the sky line is scanned closely. Clouds from the Italian horizon are a bad omen. Not until the clouds have parted from the mountain peaks, do the natives deem it safe to set out. The climbing is difficult and often dangerous. On the mountain sides are to be found curious rock-capped pinnacles of clay towering many feet into the air. The rain and snow has washed away all the clay except that directly under the rock. The men have to squirm their...
Perhaps in the "good old days" there were courses that required no work at all, but certainly such a time has passed. It is safe to assert that at present there are practically no courses that are intrinsically "cinches...
...safe method for a student who wishes to slide through college with the smallest amount of irksome exertion is to decide early in his career towards what branch of learning he naturally inclines (and the rule holds good no matter how feeble such inclinations may be) and then choose the majority of his courses from this field...
...operation is found not only in the Faculties, but in the student bodies as well. The exchange is large and I think I am safe in saying that a great majority of the students in one school take work in the to her. Of our 12 students last year, for instance, 10 took courses under the Harvard Divinity Faculty. On the other hand, of the 33 Harvard men, 20 took Andover work. I should say that the proportion this year was quite as large...
...They can be formed very easily, and are required to deposit certain sums with the government. The Comptroller's duty is to supervise them. The advantages of the system are that it supplies a uniform currency and a market for government bonds; it reduces the cost of exchange; provides safe banking facilities, and acts as a model for the state banks...