Word: hourly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most urgent appeals of the assembled multitude. (No nominations were made to fill the vacancy caused by the gentleman who resigned.) The third gentleman was a member of another club, and merely came to look on. Little business having been done, the meeting adjourned at an early hour...
...writing a lecture, and their seeming inability at times to catch and make prominent the important points is one of the disadvantages; but a still greater and more annoying one is the practice of dragging into a lecture every little insignificant fact possible, taking an hour or more for what might be delivered in ten or fifteen minutes, and doing all this in order to give the instructor the impression that the lecturer is working night and day on his course, and deserves his good-will, - deliberate "swiping." The third method is little more than a common school-boy recitation...
...special difficulty, and if he would at the same time expect the students to be prepared to answer questions that he might put to them during the recitation on the ground they had already gone over, making it a point to ask a few questions during each hour, and letting students know that they were marked on their answers, I think that nine tenths of those that now take History would make greater improvement, and find it easier to do faithful work than at present...
...hour examinations that we now have in most of the courses also tend to make the students knowledge real, and not an artificial knowledge crammed for the occasion, and mostly forgotten in a few days...
...were the custom of the genus poco to visit us at this late hour, if an unwary book-agent had looked in on me, I should have had an outlet for my spleen. A head would have gone, the world been minus one more plague, and the Crimson's dignity saved. But the sin of this be on the heads of my tormentors...