Word: constant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...complain of the delay which they experience in getting their marks. While we admit that there are some of this class of students to whom their standing cannot be of the slightest interest, there are others who are deeply interested in their work, and who show that interest by constant application. It seems to us that instructors should find no difficulty in discovering who the latter are, and should take especial care to give them their marks at the time when they give them to regular students...
...object not the pursuit of knowledge, but simply pleasure. The janitors and goodies expect to give a ball every year. They feel that they are overworked in taking care of students' rooms, and that they must have some relaxation to bring back their health, shattered by almost constant application of the broom and duster. There is another reason, too, which prompts, them to give a ball. The janitors are yearly paid a large sum by the College, and they think it their duty to spend a certain part of this for the entertainment of the Faculty, which has been...
...promised to keep you posted as to my college work, and therefore write to tell you how much interested I have become in it. The Freshman year is certainly a hard one. I begin to fear that I shall not lead my class, but I hope with constant application to obtain a detur if my health holds out. It gives me great pleasure to inform you that your fears in regard to the depravity of Harvard life were entirely groundless. I have seen nothing of the immorality of which we read in the columns of the Middlebury Monitor...
DEAR FRIEND, - The charms of my University life exceed even my fondest anticipations. Society here is intense. Cambridge is so rich in intellectual life, in local color, that one's faculties are kept in constant tension. I feel that I am improving very fast under these stimulating influences. The instructors are all men of tone. Some of them are inclined to talk upon matters not connected with the recitation, but they are always interesting. I am delighted to be able to tell you that Harvard has been grossly misrepresented by the public press. The students do not even stare...
...large majority of the instructors; but was opposed, for various reasons, by an influential minority, and at last was rejected by the corporation, partly because it was not acceptable to all the persons intended to be benefited, and partly because it would have devolved upon the corporation the constant care of deposits, large in the aggregate, belonging to individuals in their service, liable consequently to taxation and attachment, and conferring upon the owners a right of criticism and complaint touching the financial management of the University, such as no individuals now possess. The second plan was simpler, called...