Word: getting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strong force for education. It is a college from which men are sent forth with the stamp of their training impressed upon them. Harvard is broad and progressive, but under its present administration a certain amount of educational force must be lost. A strong scholarly nature will get rounded and polished by a Harvard education, while at Yale he may be in danger of becoming narrowed in his sphere of activity. A receptive, impressionable man, on the other hand, will probably be made a greater force for good by a course at Yale.- Springfield Republican...
...worth, and the time spend in grinding for an hour examination is taken from other courses, which have to be "cut" or neglected. "Bracing" once or twice a year does not do a man any good if he is lazy, and earnest students do not need "bracing." As to getting an idea of the questions on mid-year papers, anyone can go to the library and see what the questions have been for years, while the questions in an hour examination are often totally different from those given later. As to the fact of these examinations "being excellent tests...
...given us this year; and anyone who views the subject in a fairminded way cannot blame them for doing so. The month of January is a time of hard preparation for the midyears, and two weeks is only too short a time in which a man can get braced for the strain...
...building are especially intended as the proper place wheron to hang towels, had the misfortune to hang mine there. I had the use of it for about three days, when it mysteriously disappeared. Thinking that some one had taken it by mistake, and that I should soon get it again, I brought another one the next day, and two days later found to my intense disgust, that some one had used it for his own needs shortly before I wanted it. The rights of personal property have always seemed sacred and inviolable to me, but evidently there are some students...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- At the Glee Club concert last Friday evening there was a great deal of complaint about the way the programmes were distributed. A great many who came in late were unable to get any, as all of those that had been placed in the seats were taken. It seems that there were enough of them to supply the audience, if some persons who came early had not pocketed an extra one for some friend. In future, cannot some better way be devised for distributing them, than by placing them in the seats where a person can take...