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Word: ill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suggest that a radical reform should take place in the matter of delivering messages. This department should be attended to as carefully as that of transmission. A case has come to our notice, in which a student dangerously ill received a message from his family, which was not delivered until six hours after it had reached Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/6/1888 | See Source »

...recreation. If, therefore, a young man begins the work of his life while still deficient in mental training, his mind will be trained by that work only in those parts which are actively used in the business or profession which he has taken up. If he begins active life ill provided with positive knowledge of facts he is likely to learn only those facts which are useful in his branch of active life. In this way he becomes one-sided and narrow-minded; efficient, perhaps, and useful, but not liberally educated, and probably less useful and efficient than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Liberal Education. | 1/4/1888 | See Source »

...glad to announce that Marden, '88, who was dangerously ill during the recess at the Cambridge Hospital is rapidly improving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/4/1888 | See Source »

Cheever, '88, who has been seriously ill in Cambridge during the recess is rapidly improving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/3/1888 | See Source »

...work necessary to prepare for an hour examination should be inflicted upon the great number of conscientious students, simply for the good of a few who are either lazy or reckless? It seems that nearly all the instructors are coming to this opinion. Such a system seems to accord ill with the liberal spirit that generally pervades Harvard's action. We believe in a simple warning and then an appeal to the midyear and final examinations to settle the question whether a student has done his duty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/16/1887 | See Source »

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