Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deceased prepared for college at the Natick and Newton High schools. His course was marked by hard study and thorough scholarship. Few men in his class made better use of their opportunities than he. Nevertheless, he found time to pay much attention to athletics, playing on his class nine for four years, and being one year a substitute on the 'varsity nine...
...purpose of Barnard college to offer women as thorough and as broad a training as can be obtained anywhere, and the trustees are now at work pushing the construction of chemical and physical laboratories, dormitories and recitation halls...
Electrical engineering is a recent branch of scientific study and a thorough preparation in it will become more and more necessary. The necessity for such training has been brought strongly to notice in our university during the past year. We hope that by the end of next year we shall have much larger and better facilities for its acquirement...
...made especially valuable yesterday by the rare treat of a sermon from Dr. A. P. Peabody. Taking as his text "Self-respect" the preacher urged every Harvard graduate to make self respect his aim in life. If exery man aim at and follows steadily a high ideal and repents thoroughly of his past sins, his moral character will be worthy of respect, Every man ought, after his exceptional facilities for work at college to respect himself as a scholar by having a genuine knowledge of all he has touched upon. In professional and business life, also, graduates ought...
...understand that several professors have recently stated that men in their courses must be prepared on the work of the first half year, leading men to think this preparation must be thorough and exhaustive. We cannot think that any professor means to examine them rigidly on the first half year, but only to ask, as has been the custom, a few general questions, if any, If such is the intention, we protest against it earnestly. If the custom in our college examinations had been to require a full knowledge in the final examinations of what has already been required...