Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...unanimous opinion of the meeting that the terms of the contract with Mr. Blakey ought to be adhered to, and that any attempt to shirk the payment of the mortgage - a mortgage which is not such a swindle as it is popularly supposed to be - would only result in the loss of our time and money, to say nothing of our honor and credit...
...regular examination, and he certainly ought to have such opportunity. But all the information he could obtain in the case of Soph. History (first half-year) was that he passed the examination. He was left in ignorance of his mark until the shortness of the time precluded any attempt to better it at the semiannual examination. I have been gratified to hear that the marks in the History for the second half-year have been returned with more promptness, but this is of little practical comfort to those unfortunates who suffered in the examination of last September...
...seems to forget that he is now known as a man whose philosophical controversies have filled so much of your valuable space lately, and that any attempt to crush out the existence of this most excellent Philosophical Club, a club which will eventually be of of great good to all in it (if to them only), any attempt from him to do this would savor of the "disappointed aspirant...
...attempt is made by American institutions to prevent extravagant expenditure on the part of students by prohibiting gaming, horse-racing, contracting debts with very long credit and high rate of interest, or driving four-in-hands; but President Eliot thinks it will be fortunate if such regulations are not needed before our institutions are half as old as Oxford...
...carried on, - one by lectures from the professor, another by lectures from the students themselves, and still another by setting lessons and having the students recite, to which is added now and then a lecture by the instructor. Which of these methods is the best I will not attempt to say. When the lectures are delivered by the instructor, the average students, in fact I may say all except a few of the most faithful, are apt to neglect the daily work, and simply to cram their knowledge just before the examinations. As to the second method, it is certain...