Word: lessons
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...time when the lives of great men are held up for our imitation, and their characters are studied as containing the secret of success, it is well to draw a lesson, or two, from the failures of an unsuccessful...
...eccentrics of the section. Its hero I have still in store. He is the dropped man. How we all envy the abandon with which he leans back in his seat and chuckles over a French novel! He always has the French novel, and he never has the lesson. When he is called upon, we fresher Freshmen know that the clever answer will be, "I have no books, sir, -am quite unprepared, -really. know nothing whatever about the subject...
...acknowledge that we did not expect to see in them the great improvement they have made since our game last spring. It is not our desire to find any paltry excuse for our lack of success; but we cannot help feeling that we have learned again the very old lesson of defeat from over-confidence. That such was the cause of our defeat must strike every one who reads an account of the game, and notices that during the first-half, with the wind blowing hard against us, the score stood one touch-down to nothing, in our favor...
...recitations in Sophomore Prescribed History will begin on Monday, February 26, in U. 7. The first lesson is to page 25 of "The Crown and its Advisers." The sections...
...lesson's easy, too, "on tick...