Word: hards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Williams '85, captain of the '85 lacrosse team, which won the intercollegiate championship of the United States, spoke of the successes of former teams and urged the men to work hard for the championship. Mr. Williams will probably coach the team this year...
...early education under great difficulties, working on his father's farm and walking ten miles daily to school. He graduated from Ames Academy, Shelburne Falls, and passed the Harvard examinations for the class of '95. At college he continued the same quiet and industrious manner of life, studying hard and making few friends. He graduated in three years, joining '94 only a day or two before Commencement. In the autumn of 1894 he went to Brooklyn as clerk in the law office of Grout, De Ferr and Mayer, and likewise attended the New York Law School. In November...
...urge the class to take the trouble to consider these schemes carefully, and to compare their respective merits before the meeting, as it will be hard to form an opinion from what may be said that night...
...Senior class meeting draws near, we urge all Seniors to reflect seriously on the problems presented to their consideration. They must remember that they are to decide, not for themselves alone, but possibly for future classes. A college custom once established, even if by a few classes only, is hard to break. The moral is, establish a good custom. Tuesday night the Senior class may "make history," so to speak. The Tree exercises are one of the chief features of the chief day of our college course. Let every Senior, therefore, spend some time, even if it be only...
...change in sentiment does not seem hard to explain. Declamation, except perhaps by a professional who has spent many years in training, is unreal and uninteresting. Declamations worth listening to can hardly be expected from a student who has few opportunities for training and whose effort at the contest is the result of two or three weeks of work. The average Boylston Prize declamation is little more than an exhibition of memory. Debating has the advantage of being within the powers of the average student; and even poor debating is valuable, as poor declamation is not, because...