Word: hot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time-honored English universities, instead of holding up an ideal of sound learning and disinterested study, and checking the present Chinese current of popular belief, have degraded into mere examining machines. In the place of the calm pursuit of knowledge and the encouragement of original research, we have the hot competition of slaving undergraduates-for students we cannot call them,-who are taught that learning is of no value except in so far as it brings profit to themselves. Many of the mischievours results of the examination-system at these "ancient seats of learning," though now of cram, have already...
...greater part of the last month, yet not a single run has been taken. The management seems entirely to forget the purpose of a bicycle club. On two occasions, it must be allowed, attempts were made to have a run, but on the first day it was too hot for a sane man to ride, and on the other it rained. Still there can be no excuse for not having had a run on some one of the many beautiful days we have had. The Bicycle Club supports a president, captain, and sub-captain, and I fail...
...oral, and are held once a year. Religion, as a study, is compulsory, but attendance at chapel is not! As the students have no base-ball or other sport, they turn their surplus energy to the discussion of national polities, and so it happens that the universities are hot beds of Nihilism and other reforms. College societies and meetings are strictly prohibited and an assemblage of half a dozen students is likely to be dispersed. In this case by a sergeant of police and a few men, instead of a registrar and battalion of proctors. As a rule the students...
...Marble's put out. Willard scored a run for Harvard by making a tremendous drive to right field for three bases. The next three men at the bat struck out, but Willard scored on a wild pitch. Neither nine scored in the third inning, though flarris sent a hot liner to centre field, which was caught in fine form by Jones; while, for Harvard, Winslow made a clean hit, only to be left on second. Amherst got two men on bases in the fourth inning, but they were kept from scoring. Harvard scored one run, Allen getting his base...
...only cause of this expansion is a very natural one, namely, the heat of the seller's eagerness after the almighty dollar. Heat expands, and cold contracts; so we learned in freshman Physics. In what way are we to send a good cold draught across these now red hot prices? The question is a difficult one to answer. A few years ago the Co-operative Society reduced very materially the temperature of the prices of other things; but did not (probably because it could not) do anything regarding the prices of the pamphlets and syllabi used in such large numbers...