Word: state
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following Seniors; G. F. Canfield, oration, "Plato's Moral Philosophy"; A. S. Thayer, oration, "Are Time and Space subjective?" J. S. O'Callaghan, oration, "Fatalism"; H. Preble, Latin oration; R. Montague, dissertation, "The Platonic Idea"; W. T. Campbell, dissertation, "The Evolution of Musical Thought"; N. Taylor, disquisition, "State Rights...
Proud nurse of the heroes who fashioned a state...
...summer's session at Penikese have been so much reduced by the attempt to make the School partially self-supporting, that the Trustees are forced, in order to save the institution from debt, to close it for the coming season. Since no assistance is to be expected from the State Boards of Education, in the form of scholarships or otherwise, it becomes evident that the School must be carried on either by the help of the teachers for whose advantage it is intended, or by an endowment. The gift of Mr. Anderson, however generous, only sufficed to equip the School...
...gradually filled it through holes in the canvas. The oarsmen, having their backs to the bow, were unaware of their impending danger, until that part of the boat began to sink and the water to penetrate into the middle compartment. Sherman, who was bow-oar, at once reported the state of the case to Captain Hooker; he promptly urged the men to pull strongly and steadily, and headed the boat for the nearest shore. But the shell began to fill rapidly, and the men leaped into the water, Cameron unable to swim and seizing Sherman's neck. With extreme difficulty...
...their recitations unless they considered they really could not afford to be absent. Such a plan unites the best features of German, American, and English universities. It gives a man every privilege and liberty until he abuses it, and needs to be disciplined. Nothing is left in an uncertain state. Those students who become sensible in the last part of their course to the failures of the first years would have a chance to make up their deficiencies and leave college with a creditable record behind them. It would promote higher culture, and create more interest in studies, than...