Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty were at all consistent, necessitate a special master of fencing and dancing. Here you commit a mistake; sparring is a mode of defence which has a national character, as fencing has in Germany, and in the immediate vicinity of the college it is practiced at the approach of the winter meetings to such an extent that three men make its instruction a specialty. As to dancing, I can only say that it would be a very amusing sight to see college men dancing under the supervision of a teacher...
...much attention and enthusiasm? Without the attention and the enthusiasm, there could hardly be any athletics. The student does right in giving some thought and interest to athletics. The wrong is where he gives no thought and interest to more important matters, - a mistake which very few men even approach to making. The supposition that Harvard and Yale, for example, cannot meet each other in athletic contest and be at the same time institutions of learning, of serious thought and intellectual study, is false. Study and athletics can go together, and are better together than apart. A man can think...
...Helvetii, and it was noticed that the great statesman never raised his eyes throughout his stay from an ancient manuscript, which rumor said had been sent to him from Alexandria. Many were the conjectures as to the nature of the writing. At last an old peasant ventured to approach the reader and gaze over his shoulder. These words, in Caesar's own hand, met his eye, "The Gods confound me if I did not lose two millions of sesterces last night. My villa at Tibur and all the statues which my father brought from Ephesus must go to the auctioneer...
...examination books; grading of students by general classes instead of by exact numerical values, all of these are possible improvements over the present system. Objections, however, can be raised against all of them. There is no just marking symtem that is suited for Harvard's elective system. The nearest approach to justice would be an abolition of numerical marking no exact grading of students, but a general ranking by classes, such as: those not passed, those conditioned, those passed, - with credit, - with great credit, - with the greatest credit. Honors could be assigned to those standing in the upper classes...
...calm, admiring and independent indifference. It is needless to say that we refer, not to the pump, it is true, nor to that summer boarder, the mucker, who like the poor, is always with us, but to the "state of the yard." Coolness and audacity are necessary to approach this subject, but necessity is even more powerful than imprudence. One of the notably weak spots of the yard is that beautiful, sloping, inclined, hollowedout, well watered and ever-mud-adorned stretch of path from Weld to the library. We will not claim that we have here a right...