Word: strides
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...show some fault in marking when in a comparatively small section twenty-eight men are conditioned? The marks in German 1, recently given out, were quite conspicuous for their lowness. Two high marks, conspicuously high, then an interval, then another stop with several more good marks, then a beautiful stride down to the regions of fifty and sixty. The great trouble with such marking is, that it puts the men taking the course at a disadvantage with others out of it. Equal amounts of work are not equally compensated. Why should not some addition be made to each mark...
...part in the ceremony of conferring degrees. After each batch of new-made graduates have had a Latin incantation mumbled over them by the Vive-Chancellor, two Proctors-in the presence not only of University officials and students but also of any outsider how chooses to look on sheepishly stride up the long room and back again without saying or doing anything. At first there is an attempt at solemnity in their gait, but after the senseless exercise has been repeated two or three times, they look, as they dourness feel, thoroughly wretched; the effort to appear dignified...
Yale has taken a stride ahead, and abolished the Greek and Latin salutatories. All well done. The practice has only antiquity to recommend it. And it is probable that not only not one in one thousand of those who have listened to the salutations this commencement season could intelligently follow the speakers, but that could an old-time Attic Greek, or a Ciceronian Roman listen to the modern 'commencement' orations in the original tongues, he would be beside himself with a laughter at the queer jumble. Doubtless the average senior Latin or Greek oration bears pretty much such a resemblance...
...thing happens when one of that side is the first to touch it behind the line. When a rouge has been claimed and allowed, an adjournment is made to the goal of that side against whom it has been given. A yard-the longest yard that youthful legs can stride-from the goal the stoutest player of that side takes his stand with the ball between his feet, the rest backing him up in various positions so as to form a solid wedge-shaped front...
...change in the stewardship, Mr. J. J. Sullivan, taking the place of Mr. Balch, who had been steward since Jan. 1876. Last year, 1883-4, saw a decided improvement in the board, service and prices. The board for the year averages only $4.12. This was certainly a long stride in the right direction. The first flgures for this year, are even more encouraging, and the management of the Association may well congratulate itself on its success. Its own exertions, aided by the increased number of boarders, have wrought most satisfactory results. The board and service has been excellent...