Word: lated
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reasonable hour, we are roused by the relentless Jones with his prayer-bell. There is no instrument of torture yet devised by man which can cause more misery than a loud bell rung early in the morning. It is especially disagreeable when one has been up late the night before at a political or temperance meeting. The pretext on which it is rung, too, is a frivolous one. If a man insists on going to prayers, he can surely be awakened without rousing all the victims of catarrh and general indisposition, who are unable to attend. Why should...
...late emerged from, shall so soon expire...
...would be of great advantage, while apparently it would inconvenience none. The hour of all the club tables is six, and undoubtedly many prefer clubs to Memorial Hall largely on this account. It may be urged that those who like can come at six, but the dinner which the late-comer gets is not one which tempts a repetition of the tardiness...
...anticipatory examinations is, that the student is at liberty either to accept the result, or to take the course throughout the year; in this case, the marks are to be so lowered that many students would not have accepted them, and this is done when it is too late to take the course. Men, whose positions on the rank list have been assured, will be disappointed; and others, if the plan is strictly followed, will be brought below the necessary 50%. The general principle on which this action is based is not a good one. If instructors are to have...
PUNCTUALITY is not among the virtues of the Harvard student, if we may judge from the indications given at the taking of the various groups by Mr. Pach. Men would come sauntering into the studio half an hour late, and ask, with an innocent air, whether it was not almost time for the picture to be taken. Such men, that is, those of them who knew that their presence was necessary, seemed to forget that they were delaying, not merely their own group, but all the others that followed. It is not necessary for us to enlarge upon the advantages...