Word: faste
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very different with the second class. They also calculate to a nicety how much they can possibly write in an hour. They make out their abstract, and cut it down if it is too long. They learn it carefully by heart, that the words may come as fast as they can write them, and then scribble with all possible speed for an hour. To be sure they very likely know something about the book, but that is not requisite...
...Bostons opened the season Fast Day, by a game with a picked nine, in which four of the Harvards played. The weather was very favorable for the time of year, and the game was close and interesting, resulting in a score of ten to eight. To-morrow the Bostons and Harvards play the first game of a series, in Boston...
...could not climb too fast...
...forward any pursuit or study that is not itself saving of time; but this is just what shorthand is, and a year's uninterrupted practice of an hour a day is almost certain to furnish the ability to write upwards of a hundred words a minute, or thrice as fast as long-hand writing. So important is the system considered abroad, that stenography is taught in all the private schools of Germany, and attempts have been made to introduce it in this country...
...intellectual powers, with no regard to professional or pecuniary objects, that a new word to express it, or at least an old one with increased meaning, has come into use, In direct contrast to such a spirit is the system of rewards and punishments which Harvard is fast shaking off, - and of such a system is not the proposed plan a natural outgrowth? A few would be made happy by outstripping their competitors, most of whom would, of course, be disappointed and disgusted with the scholastic or literary pursuits which had failed to accomplish for them the desired object, while...