Word: extent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Association is made up at present of fourteen colleges, differing greatly in size and in the extent of their resources; and while three or four are abundantly supplied with men and money for sending crews, the majority have the greatest difficulty in meeting their crews' expenses. In fact, the latter have joined the Association, and remain in it, for the reason that membership is now accepted as a sort of certificate of character, and is deemed the distinguishing mark between a college and a high school. The membership of the Association is not, I believe, limited by its constitution...
...have printed a letter this week, entitled "Some Grievances," because it expresses the views of a certain class of students, and our own views to a certain extent. Every grievance, however, our correspondent should remember, is not so great when looked at calmly as it may at first appear. Raising the advertised price of rooms without giving notice is undoubtedly a high-handed measure, and although the requirement referred to in regard to the keys involves a principle perhaps, our correspondent will find, we think, that it involves but little expense...
...amount of sensitiveness, withdraws, feeling little less hurt than if he had not been admitted. At Oxford and Cambridge the custom is universally followed, and accepted as necessary and convenient. A refusal of admittance is not taken as an impoliteness even. The custom may be followed here to some extent by the harder working portion of students, but the less studious class seldom resort to it. It is perhaps even of more importance to the latter class than to the former, for they endeavor in the last day, perhaps hour or two, before an examination to learn what others have...
DESPITE the fact that the prevailing times are known as hard, and that the students have been solicited for contributions in aid of various objects to such an extent that they now instinctively shudder when they see approaching them one of those solicitors who with eager eye and hungry look stalk abroad seeking whom they may devour, still, in the face of these facts, this article is written for the purpose of setting forth another object which will demand pecuniary aid from the students, but which has one advantage over previous one namely, that the contributors have...
...favor the state in which it had become settled, we could greatly increase its power in its favorite study. From these considerations comes my theory, - a theory which I state as follows: It is possible, by feeding a man on certain kinds of food only, to increase to any extent his mental capacities in his specialty...