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...course proposes to give a good education, where the leading place shall be given to natural science and the modern languages. Students are admitted to this course without Greek and without Latin, if they can offer a good year's work in French and German Latin is provided in maximum and minimum amounts, the maximum being required if the student takes up the study after entrance. Two years of German are required in the scientific department, and the student must be able to read French. The student must choose during the year two courses in mathematics and natural sciences...
...school will be small at first, being limited to fifty boarders, and will be gradually increased until it reaches its maximum - 200. The school will retain some of the features of the regular preparatory schools, but in the methods of instruction - especially in English branches and dead languages, several modifications will be made. The school will be non-sectarian, and a number of unique plans for education will be adopted...
...Senate Bill is objectionable. [a] Confused and complicated, Candler, Cong. Record, pp. 3551. [b] Bounty fixed by maximum speed, Springer, Cong. Recod, pp. 3566. [c] Perpetuates wooden vessels. [d] Appropriates a recklessly large amount...
...most, important subdivisions of our subject. Every stroke entails a certain amount of work. It is axiomatic that the crew covering the greatest distance in, say, 21 1-2 minutes, with the least outlay of strength will be likely to reach the finish first. Aiming then at the maximum result with the minimum exhaustion, the point somewhere between the two is to be sought for if a crew would be invincible...
...very fact that the growth has been so great, even under the statute limitation, shows that it is found to be advantageous to the institutions themselves. The increase in the maximum of detail will allow more of these institutions to profit...