Word: approached
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...been found to be as follows: Glance through the elective pamphlet, checking in pencil all courses which attract you, from this list select as many courses as are requisite for your degree, arranging them year by year; then see whether this list does not so nearly approach the requirements for distinction as to need only slight modification. Concerning such modification, the student may best consult the chairman of the Division in which he thus thinks of specializing. (See Catalogue, p. 315). Should he be uncertain what division to choose, I shall be glad to give him all the help...
...garden wall it is quite easy to walk around it. Of the structural refinements of Both well, on the other hand, he does not seem sufficiently appreciative. The style is not good; one grows tired of "encient" and "curtain," and other un-necessarily technical phrases like "bridge of approach" and "battering (i.e. sloping) bases"; harsh collations of words are common, and even quite inadmissible expressions, like easily in "the prophecy was easily declared verified," occur. No such book should appear without a good map. Besides the little bibliography, a brief table of the chief events in Scottish history might...
...rule been wholly satisfactory: the outcome has too often been an encyclopoedic production, abounding in gaps and marred by glaring unevenness in quality. In The American Nation, however, Professor Hart has made it his editorial duty to have the various links of the chain wrought with some approach to uniformity and properly welded end to end. It is of course true that in a series of twenty-seven volumes by authors of widely differing attainments and experience there must of necessity be some variations in intrinsic value; but with one or two possible exceptions a high standard alike of matter...
...easily be computed that the average undergraduate hears during the course of a year from 250 to 750 lectures. Adding to these the number of entertainments, concerts, and theatrical performances of a more or less intellectual sort attended during the year, the figures may well approach 1000. We are certainly given abundant opportunities--we are even occasionally forced "to sit as passive buckets to be pumped into"--but on the whole this is the method of education that we have come to regard as suitable and adequate, and indeed most of us probably like...
...career. It will fill a long-felt want. The average foreigner has been all too likely to become an outsider in everything but name, through no fault of his own and no fault of the other students. The foreigner, with different points of view, has not been encouraged to approach his American classmates, whose ideas and ideals he cannot altogether understand. The undergraduates on the other land have become absorbed in their own interests and overlooked the presence of those who have come so far to join the ranks of Harvard...