Search Details

Word: mostly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

The evil, as we see, is owing partly to the indiscretion of the student, and partly to the meagre information given about the various courses. For the first there is no cure but experience; but for the latter there is a possibility of improvement. To do this it would not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURSES IN GEOLOGY AT HARVARD. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

Not a word have I altered in this rhetorically perfect specimen of composition; not a comma did I take away or add. Whatever "the grounds" may be which the Echo has for "surmising," until it is kind enough to state these "grounds," in print, it has no business to "surmise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

THE elective system, though far superior to the prescribed, has also its drawbacks. Perhaps the most frequent and greatest difficulty, even to the earnest student, is in deciding what to elect, and in learning who is to conduct the course; whether the professor named in the elective pamphlet, or some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURSES IN GEOLOGY AT HARVARD. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

In the second place, there is a plan of the course, showing what course to elect, in what year to take it, by whom it is taught, and, most important of all, of what the course consists. For this students ought to feel thankful to Professors Shaler and Whitney, by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURSES IN GEOLOGY AT HARVARD. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

The '75 Nine was composed for the most part of new men, or of those who had appeared for the first time the previous year. Hooper pitched, but his delivery had ceased to be effective; Thatcher caught; Kent, the captain, played first base; F. W. Thayer, '78, second; Leeds, short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY OF THE HARVARD NINE. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »