Word: scale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following have never been published. His well-known disregard of the ordinary methods of crediting student's work is shown in this. One day a student came to him to ask his mark for the month. It was when recitations were taken into account and marked on a scale of eight. Professor Sophocles, after a moments thought, rather curtly replied, "It's three." Perceiving the student's look of disgust, he asked, "Would you like to know your mark for next month? Well, that's three also...
...monkey. The evolution has been slow but certain. No government at all, Monarchic communities, Monarchic states, oligarchies, kingdoms, empires, limited Monarchic governments, and republics, present to us all the stages of governmental evolution; and they are of interest to us, inasmuch as they afford a certain standard or scale with which we can compare the past and present, and whereby we can determine the future development of college or educational, government...
...might be well to add here that the plan is carried out at Johns Hopkins on a very extensive scale...
...operation has come so near failing at Harvard. We ask you now to come forward and join the society. If you cannot do it out of generous, you can at least do it out of selfish, motives. Although the vusiness will be conduced on a somewhat reduced scale, the benefits derived will still be very great...
...such vantage ground over all other nations that they will probably never be able to overtake her in this work. Here, too, just in proportion as methods have been bettered, and the true spirit of linguistic training developed, the Modern Languages have risen higher and higher in the scale of patent agencies for mind culture, and, in some parts of the empire have for years stood alongside the classics, and shared with them all their rights and privileges...