Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Meanwhile Geralde has use up all his money, and writes to his father for more, pretending to be hard at work in Bourges. Through the clumsiness of Crispin, by whom the letter was to be delivered, Lisidor's suspicions are aroused; for Crispin lost the real letter and, being afraid of his master, prepared a poor imitation of it, giving some lame excuses for strange lapses in his recollections of Bourges...
Each graduate is asked to state his opinion as to the benefit or harm resulting from the influence of the elective system in his case, and to answer several more specific questions,--as to the number of courses taken to evade hard work; the effect of the system on strenuousness of application; the opinion of the writer regarding prescribed studies in schools and colleges, and what the studies thus prescribed should be. If the questions meet with general and intelligent response the result will, it is believed, be of great importance in the whole matter of American education...
...established, it must have the active co-operation of the individual home and of the community. Unless the work of the school is re-enforced by home support, the efforts of the teachers will not meet with an appropriate response from the pupils. The teacher may work as hard as he can but he cannot rely on a corresponding effort on the part of the pupil if the pupil's parents are indifferent or possibly even averse to the aims and work of the school...
...careful coaching and training have carried the eleven through dangerous crises until now it stands ready and fit to play its best game of the season. It would seem that its advantage lay in its speed in the open game, in view of the hard work which Yale has been doing almost steadily for three weeks, and hence a dry field at New Haven would be in Harvard's favor by giving her an opportunity to exercised superior generalship in selecting plays
Yale started work this fall with the best material for line positions that has come out in years, but, as for several years past, the back field material was not at all promising. Still all the candidates have proved to be hard workers and the men have shown unusual aptitude in mastering the fine points of the game. The abundance of excellent material for tackle positions and the comparative weakness of the back field suggested the experiment of trying Hale at full-back. This was done early in the season and has proved entirely successful. The development of the line...