Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...enjoy one's spare time is a difficult one always, and ninety days of camping, hunting, and sight-seeing become tedious. Rest is what is wanted, and rest is as often found in change of work as in idleness. The study and contemplation of nature after poring over books cannot fail to be enjoyable and refreshing. While cultivating the literary and aesthetic side of our nature, we should not neglect the scientific and practical...
...except VI., which, conducted with such success last year, is too well known to need any comment. Each course is to last six weeks; thus leaving six weeks to the student for a vacation of pure idleness, if he prefers. The importance of these courses cannot be overestimated, while their cheapness, considering their value, will form an attraction to many; seventy-five or a hundred dollars probably covering all necessary expenses for one of our students...
...last attempt of the Faculty to barricade the royal road to learning cannot be called either a successful or a well-advised movement. We have never loudly remonstrated against the changes which, by raising the standard, added to our labors. We have endeavored, during the year that is closing, to take as calm a view as possible of all the differences that have arisen between undergraduates and the powers above them. We have no desire now to break out into violent language, - to rail against "tyrants and oppressors," in speaking of the new rule by which every one who enjoys...
...these and other reasons, the authorities have made up their minds that it is better to have the societies outside of the Yard. Having made up their minds to this, they have exerted themselves to make the societies as comfortable as possible somewhere else. Associations with old rooms they cannot transplant, but what can be done they agree to do. The only expense to which the societies will be put is the insurance upon the building, which may amount to two hundred dollars a year, but which, when divided among four clubs, will not be a burden...
...electives in one particular branch that they must choose between giving up the study of many other things and renouncing their ambition. The only remedy for this, that we see, is to accept proficiency in final examinations as an equivalent for so many hours in the tabular view. We cannot see why such a substitution would not be perfectly fair. If one man has sufficient ability to learn as much Greek in one elective as another man does in two, why should he not be allowed the advantage which his natural capacity gives him? The test by which honors should...