Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Fast by a gray-haired senior's side
With the opening game in the college championship series tomorrow, the athletic season for Harvard fairly opens. After that events come crowding thick and fast until the end of the college year. On the same date our team plays a match in lacrosse with Columbia. The training of both the nine and the lacrosse team has been hard and faithful, and both certainly deserve a large share of success whether they win it or not. A week from tomorrow will be one of the most exciting days of the year for the entire body of undergraduates. On that date...
...York Times claims that Cotton Mather invented the marking system, and says that it "soon after came into use at Harvard College, where the Mather name was potent, and thence spread to other colleges as fast as they were founded. Whatever the vicious or bad effects of the marking system - and it is generally acknowledged that it fosters more and worse kinds of meanness than any other educational or civil law to which young men can be subjected - it must be preserved for its founder's sake...
...second-year and final honors is directed to this end, requiring independent and self-directed work. Besides these provisions to secure concentrated and coordinated work, the system of "honorable mention" also works as a stimulus to this end. "The result of this double system is that it is fast becoming 'bad form,' to graduate without the one or the other of these two distinctions...
...statistics can show the actual advance in real scholarship under the new system over the old. But all acquainted with the results testify to this advance. The spirit of Harvard students has changed from the school-boy spirit to the scholarly spirit. This is fast coming true in conduct as in work. "Indeed, one sometimes becomes apprehensive lest the sense of humor may be dying out at Harvard," says Mr. Hale rather extravagantly, "and it is with something like a feeling of relief that one reads of such a bit of mischief as that recent one (conducted, it seems...