Word: even
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...instructors have been frequently made in your columns, I venture to ask you to give me space for one more remonstrance. The marks in the different courses in English this year have been very low, - ridiculously so when the nature of the work is considered, - and even men who always obtain high marks in other courses have been rated at 20% and below in this. Men will continue to take these courses, because they are so very interesting, and the recitations are easy to prepare; but when a man has conscientiously worked his best for an examination, a mark...
...would endeavor simply to pay attention and to be interested (if they did this they would be obliged to read well), then both the advantage and the enjoyment of the course would be doubled. It is somnambulistic and apathetic reading that has tended this year to spoil the pleasure, even if it could not lessen the profit, of Mr. Child's admirable instructions in Shakespeare...
...exciting games ever witnessed and by far the best ever played by either of the contesting nines. The heavy batting, and at the same time the effective pitching, as may be seen by the number of players who struck out on either side, rendered the game more interesting than even the twenty-four inning 0 to 0 game of last year with the same nine...
When the members of an elective feel, almost without exception, that they deserve higher marks, it is highly probable that something is wrong, and in this case it seems to be the system. The whole division think that the instructor ought to raise all the marks, even though some would be over 100%. Yet this would only balance the minus per cents given in the elective...
...strongly emphasized. This is the season when hard work is most fatiguing, and yet most necessary. An ambitious student, trusting to the approaching vacation for rest and recovery, is tempted to strain every nerve, and, before he is hardly conscious of his danger, he may do himself irreparable injury. Even the strongest constitution and the most faithful exercise will not enable a man persistently to deprive his mind of needful rest; and if he gives to study the hours which belong to sleep, he must sooner or later break down...