Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...went into German, and was informed that a large amount of reading at sight outside of the regular work would be necessary, if I wished to make progress. Of course I wanted to make progress, so I determined to give up one of my theatre evenings to German at sight. Then I went into Greek, and was told that the history of the period must be worked up before the mid-year examination. Well, that was n't so bad. I could give up a few of the afternoons that I had intended to devote to calls. I went into...
...thesis it won't add anything to your mark. If you don't, I shall take off twenty per cent. I mark according to the state of a man's health, the size of his head, and my general idea of the time he goes to bed. I give the highest mark to the man who gets worst used up by the course. You are looking altogether too well, and unless you become excessively pale by the end of the year, I shall feel obliged to condition you. Good...
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...understand that several gentlemen contemplate a journey to New York to participate in the sports of the Columbia Athletic Club. We give them our best wishes for their success. Two events have been added since the programme was published, - a tug-of-war between picked teams from the crew of the steamer City of Chester, of the Inman Line, and a chase by the Columbia College Hare and Hounds Club in full uniform. The four-mile walk (go as you please) promises to be the great event of the occasion. The entries from Columbia have been very large...
...this class, to the contrary, will be rather to diminish good scholarship than to increase it. Some will, undoubtedly, be incited to further exertion by having a prize put within easy reach; but a great many, who at present take hard courses, and do very fairly in them, will give up Philosophy or English, and substitute German and Natural History, in which they are sure to get "honourable mention." The author of the article entitled "Honours and Honourable Mention" spoke of the new system as less conducive to studying for marks than the present one; it seems to me that...