Word: strides
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entire change tends toward raising the standard of scholarship at the college, and ought to be received with satisfaction by those who have its welfare at heart. From the 33 1-3 per cent. of a few years ago, to the 50 per cent. of to day, is a stride which the "grinds" will hardly notice, but which may serve to induce the "loafers" to attempt something like real work...
...entire relegation of the arguer part of the work of the freshman year to the preparatory schools is avowedly one of these changes, but one which will probably require some years for its complete adoption. With the crying anomaly of freshman year abolished, Harvard will have advanced a long stride towards the realization of the ideal which she has held before her eyes for so many years...
...Harvard Club. "Their effect," says the News, "must be to increase our chances for victory on the water. The creation of an executive committee, to consist of the captain, a graduate and the stroke, to have charge if the training and selecting of the university crew is a long stride in the right direction. It has long been felt by boating men that the Harvard system of retaining the services of graduate oarsmen by giving them a voice in the selection and training of the crew gave the Harvard crew a very decided advantage over our own. For however good...
...WORDS ABOUT FRESHMEN."But by a recent stride in the cultivation of temerity they have overstepped the bounds of indulgence and brought down upon their heads the maledictions of the upper-class. [Argo...
...stride and a stagger...