Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those who can understand it, the next sentence will be of interest. The examination in Mathematics 5 will be on as much of the following subjects as has been treated since the mid-years; Motion of Particles under action of Central Forces, Rigid Dynamics, Theory of Functions of a Single Imaginary Variable, and Elliptic Functions...
...breeding, and from the best schools we have. They were all boys with blood in their veins, and brains in their heads, and tongues that could talk fast enough and to the purpose when they felt at ease. Many of them had enjoyed The Tempest-as who that can understand it does not?- but somehow the touch of pen or pencil paralyzed their powers...
...that the best men do not always get the highest rank, and, in the case of the recipients of scholarships, not always the most deserving men get the highest scholarships. The evils of the marking system are many and great, its advantages few and insignificant. The faculty, we understand, are by a large majority in favor of a change, and all that is needed is a little agitation of the question from the students side to inaugurate the reform. There is little doubt that, with careful thought, a system could be devised answering the desired purpose much better than...
...that is necessary to insure its success on the diamond. The fact that only one man attended the nine to Exeter, and that only ten men went to Brown is surely sufficient evidence that eighty-eight's interest is much less than it should be. We understand that the subscriptions to the nine have been quite up to time; but subscriptions are not all that bring success to a college team. To see his nine win, not to hear of its victories, should be the wish and purpose of every eighty eight man in college, who can possibly afford attendance...
...polish a man puts upon his mind the less readily it adapts itself to the hard and exacting circumstances always found in a purely financial pursuit. But is this true? Has it not been found by trial that the more a man cultivates studious habits, the more he can understand situations that, although irksome, may yet be necessary and unavoidable? Many college educated men take up mercantile careers and are disgusted to find that they are expected to do work only fit for boys of fourteen or fifteen years of age, and unfortunately they show their disgust by assuming airs...