Word: exception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some extent their studies has not been shown by our experience to be well founded. Doubtless a few indolent persons will elect what they regard as easy work. But they will even then accomplish as much as they do when forced to attempt hard work, which they never perform except in the most perfunctory manner. No plan will make the college career of lazy men brilliant. The advantage to industrious men of generous liberty of choice of studies, after they have made a fair advance in fundamental and elementary studies, is very pronounced. And the work of a college should...
They also recognize the priceless legacy to the youth under their charge and to themselves, of his example of a faithful, laborious, and self-denying life, steadfastly devoted to high ends, and accomplishing its great results with little aid, except from his own courage, patience and filial piety...
...month. The result has been that men writing theses and forensics are put to a great inconvenience because they are unable to refer to articles which bear on the subject in hand. >These bound periodicals are essentially books of reference, and should not be allowed to leave the library except upon the conditions which govern the use of reserved books in the reading-room. It is seldom that anyone desires to read more than one of the fifty or more articles which are contained in a volume, and this could easily be done in an hour...
...spell more readily. There is a great strain upon the powers of memorizing at the expense of everything else. Several letters stand for one sound and vice versa. There are many silent letters and syllables, and altogether the English language is the worst constructed of any now in existence, except, perhaps, that of the heathen Chinee. An Italian school-boy learns to read Italian in a little over nine hundred hours, while it takes the average English boy three thousand five hundred hours to learn his native tongue...
...grind is, least of all the grind himself. If an intermittent cloister-like life of study is what distinguishes the grind, of what use is his life? It is a preparation for greater things coming after, of course. But some grinds do not seem to have any after, except after midnight and high marks. Archimedes was the very Bayard of grinds. But he ground himself into the grave. I remember once hearing that there are grinds at New Haven who are regularly summoned to the Yale "U. 5" for taking too many courses, and for being too ardent at their...