Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...certain to be acceptable. The Athletic Association has shown praiseworthy activity in this matter, and we wish it would consider, at the present time, the results of its fall and summer meetings. In all of them there have been very few contestants, and among these a lack of thorough training. Some suggestions we made last fall as to how this might be remedied, by requirring the ground to be covered in a fixed time, and by handicapping the winners of two or more races. If the idea in these suggestions was carried into effect, there would be better training, better...
...lays claim; and in his whole life he must show to the world the fallacy of the popular notion that all that is needed to make an American a gentleman is a little knowledge of wine, a little knowledge of women, a little knowledge of song, and a very thorough knowledge of athletic exercises...
Letter-Writing III. would probably be a much more difficult course than either of the others, and would require a thorough knowledge of rhetoric, and of Bain's mental science. The text-book should be Smith's "Epistolary Communication between a Gentleman and his Trades-people." A student having taken this course would be prepared to write such a charming note to any one of his creditors, that he (the creditor) would not only cease asking him for the money, but would offer to pay up the sum in question on the receipt of another letter of a like nature...
That the above production was the result of careful toil, long study, and especially a thorough knowledge of facts connected with regattas at Saratoga, obtained through personal experience and patient investigation, must be evident to every one who leads it. After describing the scenery around the University, giving a pleasant little item to prove that this University was more patriotic than any other during the Rebellion, and bestowing some valuable information concerning the occupations of the students during the summer months, the writer breaks forth into the following eloquent strains...
...whose amiable qualities endeared him to all who knew him, but also for the loss of a name which ability and industry seemed to have marked out for a high place on their roll of honor. Having early chosen medicine as the work of his life, he had thoroughly devoted himself to it, making all his studies tend to that end. He had a mind extremely quick to receive and originate ideas, an untiring industry, a ready and decided judgment; his progress, therefore, in this, as in all that he undertook, was of the most thorough and promising kind...