Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sent to England with the view to investigate the system of rowing observed by the college men there. I remained there long enough to gain a thorough knowledge of the art. I can assure you that I had not been at Oxford or Cambridge long before I appreciated the superiority of the English method. I saw at once that my previous knowledge of rowing amounted to nothing. It was all-wrong, and I at once set to work to master the proper system...
...thorough and systematic canvass of the college to ascertain the presidential preferences of the students will be undertaken immediately after the April recess, under the management of the Harvard Union. The four undergraduate classes, the special and scientific students, the Divinity School, and the Law School will all be canvassed, and each student will be asked his first and second choice for a presidential candidate. A score of canvassers have already been appointed and the work will be completed and the result announced at the meeting of the Union on April 24. The officers of the Union are determined...
...typical Yale graduate is ready and thorough; the Harvard, exact and full; the Amherst, patient and earnest; the Williams, well rounded and well balanced; the Dartmouth, independent; the Middlebury, careful and discrim inanity; and the Michigan, direct and clear. [C. F. Thwing...
...evident from this article that the question of higher education is still unsettled. We hope the Vassar Miscellany will give a thorough discussion of the question it has opened up and will not treat it with silence accompanied by a "supercilious elevation of the Vassar eyebrow...
...matter. Harvard has always been the first or among the first to adopt any kind of athletic game or contest suitable for student recreation and, at present, her range of such sports is much larger than is enjoyed at most of the colleges in this country. After such a thorough discussion as took place on the question of the "regulations" among our students, such a knowledge of many points was gained as would be of much value in any general inter-collegiate convention. Moreover our students would like to learn the opinions of their fellows at other colleges. They cannot...