Word: save
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...disadvantages of Fresh Pond water for drinking purposes, but the most urgent necessity of a plentiful supply of water is in case of fire. During some of our severe winter snow-storms it would be almost impossible for a fire-engine to traverse the yard in time to save a burning building. Our buildings are so constructed that there is always a powerful up-draft in each entry. Let a fire get under a good headway on the bottom floor and the entry will become a death-trap to those above. There is no escape except by jumping from...
Morgiana (a slave to Ali Baba and to circumstances; having no wages she can only save - the entire family),.......S. A. Eliot...
...incident shows for the hundreth time the imperfection of the present system of examinations and of class organization in our colleges. A lad with a certain gift of smartness can get through a term with a very limited amount of study, and trust to trick and device to save himself from disgrace at the final test." The Times further argues in favor of substituting regular weekly examinations, in place of the present system of annual or of term examinations. Then it says very strongly : "Under such a system, and with other equally necessary reforms, a college degree might be made...
...legislative act requires the signature of the regent to become a law. The judicial power is vested in a court presided over by a chief justice and two associates. There are also meetings of the general assembly. It reflects rather severely on this system, that if all the officers, save the marshal, the prosecuting attorney and the justices, were to resign, the efficiency of the government would not in the slightest degree be impaired...
...Woman's Journal thinks that in "the present epidemic of college rowdyism," only the co-educational institutions escape the contagion. Co-education did not save Cornell...