Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...contrast to the courteous attention of librarians in many of our public libraries. Although we realize that the position must be a trying one, and that many foolish and useless questions are asked, nevertheless the attendants are paid to help find and distributed the books, and long service and thorough knowledge of the shelves is no excuse for curt answers and halfhearted assistance...
Competitors are advised that the studies should be thorough, expressed in good English, and although not limited as to length, they should not be needlessly expanded. They should be inscribed with an assumed name, and, whether in Class A or Class B, the year when the bachelor's degree was or is likely to be received, and accompanied by a sealed envelope giving the real name and address of the competitor and the institution which conferred the degree, or in which he is studying. The papers should be sent on or before June 1, 1908, to J. Lawrence Laughlin, University...
...continued his interest in sports, and became proficient in golf, tennis and racquets. Although Mr. Crane's appointment by Captain Parker is for one year only, he is in a position to continue as permanent coach, if it is so decided next fall. Mr. Crane has made a thorough study of all the sports with which he has been identified and has been noted for his sound judgment. His close association with Coach Reid last year placed him in touch with the present football situation at Harvard...
...Baxter has been closely connected with the development of the Boston park system and has thus become acquainted with the practical side of municipal architectural problems. While at the Pan-American Conference last summer as special correspondent of the "Out-look" he was able to make a thorough study of several South American cities from the standpoint of landscape-gardening and architecture and in his lecture he will describe their recent advances along these lines. The lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon pictures...
...listeners' interest from first to last. Inasmuch as the concert-givers are still students it would be hypercritical and unjust as well, to apply the more on less inflexible professional standard to their performance or to their original compositions. Yet in many respects both were of so high and thorough-going a standard as to compel both admiration and astonishment...