Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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We have a splendid group of candidates. If we all vote, whatever the weather may be, whatever the inconvenience, no one will seriously regret the outcome. Let us omit all indifference and try to set a record of votes cast, which will be pointed to as an example for future...
President Lowell was the last speaker of the evening. He pointed to one of the chief defects in the graduate of American schools of applied science as that of timidity in attacking large problems. Students too often begin with low ideals and try to attain greater ones, whereas the reverse...
In the course of time these simple methods were outgrown. President Eliot pointed out with unanswerable force that the field of human knowledge had long been too vast for any man to compass; and that new subjects must be admitted to the scheme of instruction, which became thereby so large...
What I have in mind may be pointed out by a reference to the courses in the philosophy department, because I know its details best. But I have convinced myself that the principle is the same in the other departments. The table of results contains sixty-two courses; they represent...
A recent article and a communication in the Bulletin give evidence of the growing unpopularity of the hammer-throw. As pointed out there, the danger of accidents makes it necessary to hold the event at some remote point, with the result that the spectators at a meet seldom see what...