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Word: attainable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Peabody preached in Appleton chapel last night before a fair sized audience. The choir sang the anthem "Christ is Risen," after which was read responsively the sixty-fifth Psalm. Dr. Peabody took his text from the third chapter of Philippians. the eleventh verse-"If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Chapel Service. | 4/20/1889 | See Source »

...from twenty-six to twenty-eight inches, and thus give the calves and thighs additional possibilities. To guard against the seat running away before the oar enters the water, and to facilitate its movement on the recover, the runners are laid of an inclined plane. In order to attain something like uniformity of power and space between the first and the last half of the stroke, the pins are placed in front of the end of the slide. It should be understood that this stroke, properly rowed, is devoid of all jerking movements. Although the oar is actually "yanked" into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Stroke. | 4/2/1889 | See Source »

Juniors are eligible to the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Society if they attain a standing of 3.15 on a scale of four in scholarship for the first two and a half-year's of their course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/4/1889 | See Source »

...skill, and that hard work on the part of some and strong interest and support on the part of the rest will alone bring the success that is looked for as a necessity. The blessings of such a spirit in college life cannot pass unperceived, and the method to attain them is as plain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Athletic Decadence. | 11/14/1888 | See Source »

...speaker began by saying that in order to attain art, you must have the instruments; the instrument of a comedian lies within himself; it is his body. his life. The comedian must, when he produces a character, enter completely into its spirit. He must penetrate the impressions conveyed by the author, and at the same time give the character as intended by the author and not as conceived by himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Coquelin's Lecture. | 10/31/1888 | See Source »

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