Word: towards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This argument seems to me insuperable, and absolutely to condemn the marking-system above mentioned. The introduction of hour-examinations is an incomplete step toward justice. It is only by marking on recitations, also, that perfect justice is done us. This system of frequent marking eliminates variable elements, and I think it would also eliminate many of the inherent evils of the partial systems, while uniting their advantages. And if this or any other is the only really right system, it ought not to be left to individual discretion to choose any of several other methods, but there should...
...among the crews, and a greater desire to row on them. Such a result would, of course, bring many to the boathouse who are never seen there now, and could be accomplished at a moderate cost. Mr. Blakey has signified his willingness to give twenty-five dollars every year toward the cups. The balance to be made up would be small, and certainly could be spent to no better advantage if it accomplished...
...imagination," to the "Emerronian face" of Dr. Peabody, - whatever that may be. Then he ventures "to drop in a moment upon that remarkable native of the classic land of Greece, Professor Sophocles, whose worthy timeworn face is surrounded with a monstrous pile of snow-white hair, and who advances toward you with such a looseness of manner and dreamy intelligence of expression, that you wonder whether the veritable old Greek poet and the more modern Rip Van Winkle have not in some strange manner been merged into one, and are standing before you." He goes into English I. and hears...
...authors represent classes from '59 to '78, and it is noticeable that the majority of the pieces are written by men of late years. This shows, unless the compilers have been very partial toward their own time, that the quality of our poetry has, of late, been improving...
...write true latine prose, and hath skill in makeing verse, and is competently grounded in the greek language, so as to be able to construe and grammatically to resolve ordinary greek as the greeke testament, Isocrates and the Minor poets or such like, having withall meet testimony of his toward-ness, he shall be capable of his admission Into Colledge...