Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...beginning of last year the Advocate published several articles arguing the question whether University men should or should not be allowed to row at the spring and fall races on their class crews. The articles on one side insisted that to permit them would give an unfair advantage to some of the crews; while the other side maintained that it would be gross unfairness to some classes not to permit their best men to row on the crew which represented them...
...that some plan should be proposed that would make provision for them to row together as a crew in the spring and fall. A strong argument in favor of such a plan was suggested at the time of the discussion in the Advocate, - that it is but fair to give men an opportunity of seeing the crew which represents them row a race without obliging them to travel hundreds of miles for the purpose, and that the members of the crew would themselves enjoy rowing a race near home, and under such favorable auspices...
...found of sufficient strength to press the University hard enough to make the race interesting. Probably no one of the class crews could do this, yet on each there are some especially desirable men; and it seems possible that a crew might be formed of these men that would give the University hard work to leave it behind...
THERE seems to be among many college graduates and students a disposition, fostered, no doubt, by the character of our most popular studies, to consider as rather unworthy our notice anything so simple and rudimental as the faculty of memory. We give a great deal of time, and wisely, to the languages, as a means of cultivating our analytical powers, and to mathematics and philosophy, to strengthen our reasoning faculties; but while so much of our attention is devoted to those pure sciences whose good results are to be sought for in the mind itself, and not in the subject...
...rehearsing it at intervals of a few weeks; if in general we recall and fix in our minds what is tending to slip away, so as to remember more, even though learning less; and finally, if we remember that what is slowest learned is slowest forgotten, and so give more attention to every-day work and less to cramming, we shall find our retentive powers developing to our own satisfaction and advantage...