Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...striking. Although we much admired the catcher's cool playing Wednesday, we doubt whether he has the requisite strength for the position; could not the catcher of the Beacons be induced to play? We also need at least one active man in the field who will cover a tolerable amount of ground and do well at the bat. Although the prospect for the future is much brighter than it was, we can safely say that unless the men in college who have ever played ball before come to the front and lend their assistance, Harvard will not win, this year...
...either because they are valuable or because they are easy. In the first case, students should be encouraged to take them, and if the instructor finds it inconvenient to instruct them all in the existing number of sections, then that number should be increased. In the second case, the amount of work done in the course should be extended. In either case, the expedient of making it impossible for men to take electives without sacrificing other desirable courses is wholly improper. Our system is exactly contrary to the right one; the most crowded electives should be put at the best...
...went into German, and was informed that a large amount of reading at sight outside of the regular work would be necessary, if I wished to make progress. Of course I wanted to make progress, so I determined to give up one of my theatre evenings to German at sight. Then I went into Greek, and was told that the history of the period must be worked up before the mid-year examination. Well, that was n't so bad. I could give up a few of the afternoons that I had intended to devote to calls. I went into...
...chief objects of the new system of Honours are: to incite students to greater effort for good scholarship, and to reward men who are, it is said, unjustly deprived of reward. The effect in the first respect will be, on the contrary, to diminish the total amount of true scholarship among the students. The value of honours under the new plan will be much less than that of the present ones. The very value of graduating honours at present is that there is a general interest as to who obtains them; there will be much less interest taken...
...substitute German and Natural History, in which they are sure to get "honourable mention." The author of the article entitled "Honours and Honourable Mention" spoke of the new system as less conducive to studying for marks than the present one; it seems to me that it will double the amount of studying for marks. Under our present system, some of the Commencement-part men take easy courses to help on their general average; under the new system there will be a greater rush for the easy courses, in order that men may get in them eighty per cent, and "honourable...