Word: speak
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that scholarships could not be assigned. It is a delicate matter to tell a student that he is unfit for a scholarship when his rank is not based on definite marks. In other words, a false and injurious method is to be maintained, because, forsooth, instructors are afraid to speak the truth unless it is shielded in a specious disguise. It is strange that they do not see that it is all the same, whether they tell a student outright, or mark him and then tell him. However, special examinations for scholarships might be instituted...
...papers during the last years of the Intercollegiate races at Saratoga, and now seems to be relapsing. To charge a sister college with mean subterfuges and "sporting dodges" argues a very low sort of spirit indeed, and we hope to see no more of such criticisms. It does not speak very well for the Editors of the Era that they should so misinterpret...
Smith glared indignantly for a moment, then gathered up his papers, and marched out of the room. I have n't seen him but once since, and then he would n't speak. However, I shall try to stand...
...rumored that as soon as the river is open a few "boating men," who are disgusted with the management of "club system," will probably charter one of Blakey's shells for their private use; so we may expect to see before long a "gentleman-six" on the Charles. To speak of the Fencing Club and the Pigeon-Shooting Club is but to mention other phases of the same spirit of progress. But the greatest advance we have yet noticed in this direction is the organization of a Philosophical Society. Debating societies and associations for the critical examination of heliotypes...
...course does not seem entirely satisfactory. I have had a rather good time; but I am anxious now to go to some place where I shall feel that I am at least accomplishing something tangible, and where there will be something to call forth my ambition. If I speak as an individual, I think I can at least say that, if not a majority, at least quite a respectable portion, of my class agree with me in thinking that they are glad our course is so nearly over. By the by, have you seen the President's Report...