Word: trials
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...theory with regard to money and its value might have been as tenable as the other before either was tested. But when one has failed to stand the test of usefulness, it is difficult to see how it can reasonably be advocated for another trial at the cost of public credit. Representatives from the West and South, apparently ignorant of the subject, and unwilling to be persuaded by their opponents, might at least listen to a few lessons from the learned and anxious pens that appeal to them from the chief cities of the country...
...decided that it should be used for nothing but reading, and that smoking in the room should be forbidden. What I wish to suggest is, that since this policy has now been fairly tried, and has not met with success, the other course should be adopted, on trial at least...
...Candidates are allowed only Latin lexicons for reference. After this is a Latin theme on a given subject, and finally a philosophical dissertation. Three hours are given for the dissertation, four for the Latin theme. If this part of the examination is successfully passed, there comes next the oral trial, which consists of the explication at sight of a passage from a French, Latin, and Greek author; a question in history, geography, and philosophy, together with several upon the sciences, - physics, chemistry, arithmetic, geometry, etc. There is also a degree conferred called the Baccalaureat-es-Sciences, in which the sciences...
...veal." But this is one of the things impossible. The little bird, seeing its parent flying from bough to bough, thinks it can do the same. Having found itself strong enough for the slight use of its limbs required within the narrow bounds of the nest, it confidently makes trial of its strength in the air. But, alas! the failure. Not till then does it learn its own weakness. The retirement of the study is well enough so far as it goes, but there is nothing like the rostrum for taking the conceit out of a man. The sooner...
...regularity of our Janitor, Mr. Jones, at the bell, has probably forced itself on the notice of all ere this. This regularity was nearly interrupted on the morning before Thanksgiving. A preliminary trial of the rope revealed the fact that something was the matter with the bell. Further investigation showed that a huge turkey a d "fixin's" had somewhat muffled it. Love for his college duties and, we presume, for turkey hastened his motions, and the bell was soon impartially summoning saint and sinner to prayers, just on time...