Word: rule
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...unanimity and unreservedness of the praise bestowed by the newspaper press, for three successive seasons, on the New London managers, is something entirely singular and unique in American aquatic annals. That praise would never have been won, however, had not those managers accepted at the outset, as a vital rule for their guidance, the theory that, in a college rowing contest on the Thames, a single race between two crews is the most that may be safely attempted within the limits of a single day. The experience of three seasons have simply served to strengthen them in that theory. They...
...readily over-looked all shortcomings. Colonel Higginson's presence and remarks showed the interest he takes in the Union. The experiment of allowing all who so wished, both ladies and gentlemen, to come to hear the debate was so successful that hereafter it will be, we presume, the rule rather than the exception...
...went at it with all my might. While I was doing that, he dropped down on his knees by the door and commenced with right good will to pray out aloud." "I say, though, did he? what for?" "Well, I'm coming to that. You see there was a rule at X - that no proctor could interrupt a student or enter his room while he was at prayers. So the old duffer had to wait outside until Fred finished; and this Fred took care not to do before I had burnt up all the sign. Then he ended with...
...during the academic year. All courses, including extras, in which the student receives the required per cent will be placed on the rank-list, but extra courses will not be credited on the Annual Scale. All things considered, we cannot find fault with the Faculty for making the new rule. But we hope that all the Professors will adapt themselves to the elective system and voluntary recitations, so that there will be no need of extra courses or a protection against the caprice of the marking-system...
...most and study hardest get the lowest marks; where an instructor marks on the English system, and assures you, as he gives you sixty per cent, that this would entitle you to honors at Oxford or Cambridge; where you can calculate any action of the Faculty by the simple rule of opposites; where, in fact, you can get everything by expecting and deserving nothing, and vice versa, - where, then, all these things are true of the University, why should I be surprised at anything...