Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...change in the administration, a change that has met with universal favor. For, though the ex-President was widely beloved and respected for the energy and perseverance with which he worked for the welfare of the college; yet the new president has begun on his administration with such a thorough understanding of the work set before him, and such a perfect sympathy with the interests and aims of the students, that he cannot fail to become popular with them, and to bring prosperity to the college...
...their respective athletic specialties is not yet known. The election of John Rodger's, Jr., to the captaincy of the crew meets with general favor, and, having been in the past a faithful and conscientious worker, he is confidently expected to see that his men train in a thorough manner...
...collegiate contests. Now little knowledge of Harvard or of any great university is needed to show the utter impossibility of accomplishing such fundamental reforms without the strictest regulations upon the part of the faculty, seconded by the most determined stand made by parents; and, what is more, by a thorough reform of the personal character of the students themselves. It is true that great and needless expenses are incurred by the more wealthy of the students, but to claim that the student body as a whole is given over to expensive living because of the above cited existing abuses...
...surplus at the end of the season. In these times, when we hear so much about "debts of several hundred - or several thousand - dollars," left by treasurers and managers of various college societies and associations for their successors to pay, it is a pleasure to meet with such a thorough, conscientious manager as Mr. Woodbury. He has not only paid up all the expenses of the nine, but he has been enabled by his care and forethought to provide small luxuries for them, to give them a rousing celebration in honor of their victory, and even to make a welcome...
...college have made complaints in regard to the English literature courses in college. They say that they are altogether too superficial. They seem to lose sight of the aim of these courses. It is not intended in studying the history of English literature by centuries, to give a thorough study of the different writers. As has been several times expressed at the lectures, the idea of the courses is to give men a knowledge of who the writers are, what period and school they belong to, and what their general work has been. With this foundation laid, students...