Word: final
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1880
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wish to plead for the establishment of courses in Ancient and Modern English, which shall make the attainment of Final Honors a possibility. Honors in Modern Languages are based mainly on French and German. But there are no motives to urge men to a careful study of English, except the excellence of the instruction given, or love for the subject. Is our literature, then, so deficient in value and interest? Is the ability to write - not Greek, but English - of so little importance? Students of Saxon and Old English meet with scant encouragement. Honorable Mention is a meagre reward...
...fallacy of the conclusions based upon them, I asserted concerning the arrangements actually used in running the train, that "no one of the managers has yet seen any reason to doubt that this is the best possible plan, or to hesitate about adhering to it hereafter." My final remarks were as follows...
...thrown away. Some changes were made, but, according to the confession of some of the officers themselves, meaningless changes. After the long discussion, the society remains as exclusive as ever. None but those who can conscientiously subscribe to certain dogmas can be members of the society, according to the final decision of the last meeting...
...WENDELL, '82, won easily the final heats of the 100-yards and quarter mile runs at the Rye A. C. Games on May 31, but as he had not been able to run the trial heats (owing to a dislocation of his elbow and wrist, which the doctor was setting when the trial heats were called), the first medals were both given to the second man, J. H. Rumner, of the Staten Island A. C., the Secretary of the Staten Island A. C., with a knowledge of the above facts, having entered a protest against Mr Wendell for not running...
...foreseen, was not properly encountered, seems to have been the chief trouble this year. We make these remarks at this time, not to find fault unnecessarily, but in the hope of spurring them on to correct, as far as they are now able, their present deficiencies, before the final games with Yale are played...