Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University forwards, with various defence combinations, played a game with three different scrub teams in succession. Leslie, one of the substitute forwards on last season's team, was tried at left wing, and Gardner was shifted to right centre. This arrangement seemed very effective and will be given a thorough try-out. Huntington and Blackall, at point and coverpoint respectively, worked together better than any defence combination tried this year...
...only the team be granted a coach next year, would not some such scheme be worth trying? A thorough boom of cross-country running might set it permanently on its feet, and then we should no longer need to discuss its abolition, feeling sure that we were amply and ably represented in what is, after all, one of the best and oldest forms of sport known. M. S. CROSBY...
...believe, generally known that the plan which is in preparation will be carried out by arranging all College courses in a few sections. Each student at the end of his Freshman year will be required to elect one of these fields of study for thorough work to be pursued in his remaining three years, and will also be expected to get some knowledge of other subjects by taking a small number of elementary courses in each of the other divisions...
...great variety of apparatus in which electrical current, compressed air, gas, and water are all ingeniously applied to producing a great variety of delicate and exquisite effects. The work to be done is all exact, and much of it is minute. The whole Dental Building illustrates the thorough application of the new learning which medical science has developed under the term asepticism. Since dentistry now comprehends surgical operations on the jaws, palate, and nose, a complete equipment for operations on those parts of the head is provided in the new Dental Building; and this equipment provides every precaution against septic...
Just as preventive medicine anticipates for itself a great public function in the prevention of disease and the promotion of health among the mass of the population, so dentistry looks forward to rendering public service. It is looking forward to thorough inspection of school children as regards teeth, nose, and throat, and believes it can render a great service to the community through the establishment of this systematic inspection at public expense. It is already rendering a large amount of gratuitous service to the poor in hospitals and infirmaries. It looks forward to a great increase in the amount...