Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...noticed it, and as I have no doubt but that you have a good deal of spare time, I'm going to ask you to write up a little thesis - say about a hundred pages - for next Tuesday...
...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...
...greatest confidence in the judgment of the Faculty. But what if Growler's health breaks down? I shall be to blame. It is well to be conscientious and elect hard courses, but if anybody ever asks my advice again I shall say, "If you want to get the greatest good out of your college course, and are prepared to bear the scorn of mark worshippers, take solid electives. But if you want to shine upon the rank-list and have a Commencement part, devote your time to ethics and the modern languages...
There are to be nineteen seats provided, so that all will be able to get out when they please. The boats will be ready for use immediately after the vacation, and will be supplied with good oars and sculls...
...chief objects of the new system of Honours are: to incite students to greater effort for good scholarship, and to reward men who are, it is said, unjustly deprived of reward. The effect in the first respect will be, on the contrary, to diminish the total amount of true scholarship among the students. The value of honours under the new plan will be much less than that of the present ones. The very value of graduating honours at present is that there is a general interest as to who obtains them; there will be much less interest taken...