Word: gained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fields of pleasure should prove that they are highly qualified for entrance into the academic shades. The term of college bred must not be allowed to fall into disrepute even at the cost of closing our doors to several men who wish to be Harvard students without working to gain that distinction...
...allows himself to be blown hither and thither by the wind of popularity, or who is striving after good-fellowship with his class-mates. Not that a student should shut himself up in his rooms and so acquire monkish habits, lose in worldly knowledge to gain in knowledge of letters: yet at the first glance, this seems to be the only resort for those who wish to graduate from the college with a high standing on the class rank list. But there are men who seem to do both; who seem always ready to idle away an hour...
...resent offenses against the tone of the college in character and conduct, we should end by imbuing the very atmosphere with an honor, manliness, pride and delicacy, to which all things could be entrusted, and which would be the most precious thing a young fellow coming here would gain,- worth far more to him than his learning or his degree. There is no reason why, in a little community like this, the tone of character,- the fashionable and conventional tone of character, I mean, for I speak not of the recesses of individuals' breasts-should not be far higher than...
...gone over in some form. In mathematics the propositions of geometry and the problems of algebra are reviewed with more or less care, according to the natural taste of the student for the subjects. Some men, good in every other branch, make wretched work of mathematics, and only gain a semi-mastery of the principles by hours of study. These men have a hard time during the cramming period, and, what is more, 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...
...vacation. No instruction of the university, if judiciously used, could be pursued to greater advantage than such courses. There are many courses in the schedule of studies which of course no one student can pursue, however he may desire to elect them. The only manner in which he can gain a knowledge of such studies, is by outside reading. The establishment of courses of summer reading should be made general throughout the college. The effectiveness of the present system of study would be enormously increased while conforming to the convenience and task of all. The students would by this means...