Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...three years spent time and care adorning these private castles. The daily care of the "goodies" has crowned the efforts of the occupants. They are obliged to leave them to the mercies of Class Day crowds. When they come back to them in the fall, the complaints are frequent in regard to the state in which their rooms are left. It seems absurd to have to speak upon such a subject, but if the temporary occupants would use the ordinary care they do upon their own rooms, there would be no need of this...
...again of the loose way in which many items of so called "news" are worked up for the city papers, but with complaints coming to us from three or four different quarters we find ourselves obliged to speak of the matter once more. Setting aside all reference to the frequent misrepresentations of students and instructors of the college, we would touch only upon athletics. The members of the athletic teams are constantly complaining that they and their sports are grossly misrepresented in the city press. That their complaints are, with few exceptions, well founded is too true, but that...
...varsity" man. They row about twenty minutes every day, run a slow mile and a fast half mile, and pull the weights. Their movements at the weights are entirely different from those at use at Harvard; they have a greater variety of exercises, thus causing changes to be more frequent. Their training on the whole is more thorough than heretofore, and it would be well for the Harvard freshmen to bear this in mind. In order to win next June they will have to continue the good work they are now doing in the gymnasium. Harvard, '89, has a larger...
...promise of this first week of college work be continued throughout the year, for nothing more greatly enlivens the monotony of regular routine work than these frequent readings and lectures...
...that direction would not be superior to the present state of affairs. Consequently, the real question is not to find out how we can improve our system of examinations and marks, but rather, how we may get more real work out of students. By this is not meant more frequent attendance at recitations, nor even higher marks on the examinations, but a more thorough, deeper knowledge of his electives on the part of each man. A long step in the right direction was taken when elective studies were introduced instead of a compulsory course, as is shown by the much...