Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...special examination is to be provided for nearly one half of the Sophomore class, who failed to pass in Mechanics...
...quite a large crowd gathered to see the "Oaks" polish off the Harvards; but, for Lynn, it was a very quiet and amiable assemblage. The game was one-sided and rather stupid, it being perfectly evident from the very first inning what the result would be. In the last half of the ninth inning the batting of our Nine was very good. The result of the game formed an auspicious opening of the season, being 11 to 3 in our favor, as follows...
...University crew has gone to a training-table at Memorial Hall. Dinner is served to them at one o'clock and supper at half past six. The price of board is not to exceed $8.00 a week. If the club crews will also form training-tables, the board can be considerably cheapened...
...Women are now admitted to all the privileges of Harvard College. Eastward the star of education takes its way. Kansas, from the first, founded her university on the better-half theory. . . . . We are almost at a loss to understand why it is that in these latter days Harvard College has fallen heir to so many adverse criticisms, not from its enemies alone, but from its friends. Either its recent history has been one of rapid retrograde, or else the scholarship of New England has gone suddenly ahead of the standard of its most venerable seat of learning. It has been...
...uncomfortable recitation-rooms, the poor student, who depends solely on his own high rank for his daily bread, has few of the amenities of life. After six or eight hours of sustained intellectual effort, an hour or two in the course of a week spent in dancing, or a half-hour with a party of fellow-students over an open grate with a pipe of Lone Jack or a mug of beer, cannot be productive of such lugubrious results as theorists imagine. The very fact that to hold a scholarship requires extraordinary abstinence, self-control, and mental strength, disproves...