Word: deal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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These considerations may furnish an excuse for the rather startling proposition at the head of this article: Note-Books at Examination. In college life we can master but little, yet we can learn where to look for a great deal. Whether our attention is sufficiently turned in that direction is a question I would candidly ask. Many an hour spent on rereading and memorizing notes when we have already sufficient understanding to use them as a work of reference, could be far more advantageously spent on subjects connected with our study. Notes on this outside reading would be so much...
...desiring to see a rather extravagant example of the spirit that crops out in all our exchanges from mixed colleges, will find it in the Cornell Era of May 8, under an article on "Dancing and its Results." They must read the Bible and Prayer-Book a good deal at Cornell, for in two articles in this number they succeed in working in four phrases cribbed from these standard authorities...
...informs us that when the South ask for aid or sympathy from the North they receive "the cold shoulder." One cannot but admire the spirit which leads him to deal in the appetizing metaphor of "the cold shoulder" rather than in the "dry bones" of the ancient Jeremiah. It is impossible to surmise how much is implied by that exceedingly dubious expression, "the cold shoulder"; but the meaning cannot be extended so far as to include the Northern capital, which is the life of the South at the present time. The writer, if he is interested in facts, will also...
...inconsistent with the avowed opinions of all instructors on this matter. The plan does not differ much from giving out the questions of an ordinary examination a day or two previous. The examinations amount to so little as showing the real knowledge of those examined, that, although a good deal of time is uselessly spent in preparation for them, it would be very unfair to give them any importance in determining a student's position. They are interesting as affording examples of the purest cramming. Perhaps the object in giving them was to present the evils of the practice...
...Must deal hard blows in many a fight...