Word: follows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they receive little sympathy from their more fortunate classmates. The classics are frequently worked up by groups of men in the same class. Sometimes a "pony boy" is hired, who, with his translation in hand, drones out his task, while his hearers, with eyes glued upon their text-books, follow him line for line, interrupting occasionally to demand a repetition of some difficult passage...
...next charge made against our system is that students who follow consistent courses, may become "onesided and erratic." This charge again is true, and in its truth do we find the excellence of our plan. When a student has acquired a certain roundness, it should be the next step for that student to develop some especial talent with which he is endowed. This is made possible in a greater degree under an elective than a prescribed system, and in this possibility of "one sided" intellects becoming still more "one sided" is the virtue of the new regime...
...complaints are unjust, and that the authors of the new rule have shown their real regard for the student's interest by thus depriving them of that time in which many men against their better judgment, unfit themselves by hard study for the three hours' work which is to follow. An examination in Philosophy or Political Economy, for example, requires that the physicaland mental condition of the student should be excellent, and that all his faculties should be on the alert, if good results are to be won. Much more depends upon physical condition than on the possession...
...Columbia, and Bradley, '86 were the contestants. The starter gave the word to get ready, and the first two started without waiting for the pistol. Bradley requested that they be set back according to rule, but the starter without heeding him fired his pistol, and Bradley had to follow the other two, by that time already half way to the first hurdle, or get left entirely. He ran so much better than they that he cleared the last hurdle almost at the same time with them, and finished but a few inches in the rear of Safford, who, in turn...
...present steward. The managers of the Hall are to be congratulated on the success of their efforts in behalf of the students, as well as upon the very enjoyable dinner of which they have just partaken. We are sorry, however, that they did not see fit to follow our suggestion, and assess the cost of the banquet upon the entire body of members, instead of defraying the expense from their own pockets...