Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Last term a number of students were suddenly apprised that they would have several successive examinations before a week was over, and there being no time for proper preparation, low marks and much dissatisfaction was the result...
...into the world; keep up the good opinion you now have of yourself; try and impress others with the same idea; and if your aims in life are not altogether attained, console yourself by thinking what you could do if you only would; and above all, keep your aims low, for "men of lofty aims" are never happy...
Hearing the nightingale's low throbbing...
...charge is true, let us hide our diminished heads. The revelations made this winter concerning the undergraduates of Harvard are fully as startling as the recent disclosures in Washington. We have been shown to be oligarchs, indifferent, pessimistic, given to "European clothes" and Eastlake furniture, "a cigarette outside and low thoughts within"; and to all this is now added the epithet "hypocrite." It is the straw which breaks the camel's back. But before we succumb entirely, let us examine this last blackening charge...
...been; and a knowledge of marks has an influence rather beneficial than otherwise upon all. If the mark is high, it is an incentive to push on, in hope of the Phi. B. K., or of a Commencement part, or at least of the Rank List. If it is low, it is equally an incentive to improvement, for nobody likes to fall behind his old standard, and the idea of a condition is universally unattractive...