Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Phillips Academies, located respectively at Andover, Mass., and Exeter, N. H., together with the Williston Seminary at East Hampton, Mass., stand among the first of American preparatory schools, yet Princeton has a per cent. of patronage from these institutions far below either that of Harvard, Yale or Amherst...
...longer holds in comparison with Amherst and Yale, for our requirements have, of late years, been raised to such an extent that they are now on a par with Yale's. We are assured that the good work is to continue. If Princeton continues to take a firm stand in favor of all manly sports, it will do much to increase her patronage from these sources, for, these schools are all warm supporters of athletics. Moreover, the athletic events, as they take place at these schools, are carefully watched by the athletic associations in the various New England colleges...
...taught, but none the less inexorably they fall on just and unjust. The wastes of choice affect the shiftless and the dull, - men who cannot be harmed much by being wasted. The wastes of prescription ravage the energetic, the clear-sighted, the original, the very classes which stand in the greatest need of protection...
...comparative independence of a microscopist from an elaborate stand arises from the fact that the true value of his work is due to his experience and the magnifying power of the lenses which he uses. The objective, or system of lenses nearest the object, and ocular or system nearest the eye, are the two parts upon which this magnifying power depends, the burden of the work always being put upon the objective...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I see in one of your columns that a complaint is made on account of lack of energy in carrying out the plans of the proposed grand stand. I wish to state that two mass meetings were called, before the last of which a notice was put in the CRIMSON, that unless there was a fair-sized meeting, the committee would take it for granted that the students did not care to have anything further done in regard to the grand stand. At the last meeting there were hardly twenty men present and as had been stated...