Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ball-playing, boating, etc., are engaged in by students as recreations, and students ought not to be expected to compete on equal terms with those who make the practice of these recreative sports the business of their lives. Students who compete or practice with professionals gain in experience and skill, but this renders it necessary that their college opponents should have a similar advantage, or the terms would be unequal. This would lead to the employment of professionals in every branch of competitive sport. But as the character of professionals, as a whole, is not high, it is believed that...
...gives his consent but agrees to go with them, and the four set out to capture Castle Adamant by cunning. The next act is at Castle Adamant, and after several vain attempts to enter the castle the four wanderers dress themselves up as "girl graduates" and in this way gain admittance within the sacred precinct. Once inside they attempt to influence the Princess, but are discovered and cast from the gates in disgrace. This second act is full of clever satire and bright dialogue, showing Gilbert at his best, and the music also is brisk and catching. Burning with rage...
...more frequent recitations. The amount of work done in them, we believe, fully equals that done by the old method. Moreover, when once the course is completed, the men are free to take similar courses which run to the end of the college year, and this is an obvious gain to the student of nearly three hours a week for half a year,-a very considerable item in a man's college career. Besides this, they supply the need of those who are willing to devote half a year to some special branch of a subject but are unable...
First.-Six hours a week of the average student's time will gain in certain courses a mark much higher than in certain other courses; yet all three hour courses are counted equal. The student is therefore tempted to elect easy courses in preference to harder and more profitable ones...
Third.-After the first year of elective study, the student can gain higher marks by electing courses closely connected with those which he has already taken, than by taking up new branches of knowledge. He is thus tempted to elect courses which will not afford him a proper amount of work and benefit...