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Word: systemize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1880
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...senses more and more, I realized that it was not upon the Styx's bank that my boat was beating, but against the little pier in front of the Bay View House. So I got ashore as best I could, and, feeling as if an entire planetary system was whirling within my brain, I stumbled up to the hotel, and, in a sort of daze, got to my room and fell asleep at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUSINING. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

...have an advantage in marks over those who took the courses for the first time. This may possibly be so; but nowadays it is generally conceded that marks are less important than the knowledge which they are supposed to represent. If so, perhaps the Faculty might devise an intricate system of handicapping those who really wish to complete their knowledge of a subject by electing it for two years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

...languages, except in some French courses. But in history, philosophy, and the sciences, much benefit might be derived from these "syllabi." It is a great advantage to have a synoptic view of a course, as it enables one to study with method and regularity. Time, which brought the elective system, will, it is hoped, bring the "syllabi" also...

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

...Sawyer, '77, also showed themselves valuable acquisitions. Ernst took the pitcher's position, which he maintained for four years as no other college pitcher has done, while the outfield, Latham, 1, Tyng, m, and Dow, r, was as fine as any in the country. The last introduced the system of assisting a striker out to first: before that a hit to right field had been looked upon as safe...

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

THOSE who have read the last annual report of the President will remember the recommendation contained there of establishing a system of promotion for instructors: a Tutor to be raised, after a certain time, to the rank of Assistant Professor; an Assistant Professor to the rank of Professor. The recommendation met with the approval of all friends of education. Only recently there was a chance of carrying out the President's plan. But carried out it was not. By some good fortune Harvard was enabled to establish a chair in Sanskrit, - a subject for the tuition of which little financial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

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