Word: wide
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...high wind it is impossible for anyone to live upon them. Finding that he had a fight for life before him, Rupert saved his pocket knife and threw away all his clothing but his drawers and undershirt. His drawers he tore into strips about an inch and a half wide, and cutting new holes through the cork sections of the life preserver he bound them securely together with the strings made from the drawers. The desperation with which he did this work and the careful manner in which he prepared everything was made painfully apparent by the condition...
...much to be regretted that such wide prominence has been given to an occurrence which is significant only as marking the feeling everywhere against the old conservative system of governing a college. Far more harm than good results from this injurious spreading of college disturbances by newspapers who seek only to be sensational. The college world is particularly its own, and this needless prying into it by outsiders is only to be condemned. It may come about, to be sure, that there are evils of importance to be corrected, which might be remedied by being placed before the country...
...utterly factitious and worthless these successes are a week after they will leave the school. The argument of the teacher is that the examination marks are a test of the pupil's proficiency. This is seldom correct. They are a test of his verbal memory and physical endurance. So wide is the range of study required now even in primary schools that nothing more can be done by the pupil than to commit the text-books to memory; to learn as it were the alphabet, the dictionary, of each science, in the vain hope that in after life...
...from the dignity of the chief magistracy of the State. The reasons operating on the minds of those who voted against granting the degree are obvious. * * * The overseers undoubtedly acted as they thought best for the interests of the college and its influence as an educational institution of world-wide fame. Time will show whether or not they erred in drawing the line at Gen. Butler. It must be confessed that they have increased the honor attaching to a LL. D., when coming from Harvard. The rule they have now tacitly laid down will impel the board hereafter to critically...
...worst features of the elective system, it must be admitted, is the opportunity it offers the student to spread his work over too wide a field - to dabble in too many subjects at a time. A system which would require concentration upon fewer subjects, we believe, is to be desired. This result the system of "semester" courses would seem to provide...