Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...having his head manipulated by my ideal professor, who thus comments on the capacities of his subject: "Memory, pretty fair; reverence, none; mechanical ability (gouging, boring holes, etc.), good; self-esteem, very low; sensibilities, none. Young man, I 'll go no further; you are especially adapted to the dental school, and I earnestly advise you to enter at once...
Imagine the professor examining another man; and thus disposing of him: "Memory, poor; mathematics, none; language, wanting; perspicacity, none; common-sense, the merest trifle. Why, upon my word, you are admirably prepared for the law school or the scientific school...
...Freshman Foot-Ball Seven played a game against an eleven picked from the Cambridge High School and the Resolute Club on Wednesday afternoon which resulted...
AMONG other mathematical authorities who denied the possibility of the "twist" in pitching a base ball, was one of our own professors. The heresy, having the countenance of so great a name, spread rapidly among the students, until some even of the disciples of the materialistic school of philosophy doubted the evidence of their senses and trusted to the light of reason. But alas for theory! Last Saturday the pitchers of two of the leading ball-clubs succeeded in pitching around the corner of a fence built at right angles with a line drawn from pitcher's stand to catcher...
...School of Mines Department" of the Columbia Spectator, we read of a gentleman who "was recently the recipient of a dinner tendered to him" by some society or other. The two words which we have italicized prove sufficiently that the author of the item deserves, at least, to graduate with high honors in newspaper English. There is necessarily a modicum of bad matter in college journals, but bad manner is inexcusable...