Word: making
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Union four are rowing regularly, and make a heavy crew. They are pulling the old '76 stroke, and are doing very well...
...text-book, it omits theoretical speculations, gives particular rules rather than vague generalizations, and puts everything in a form that can be readily grasped and easily remembered. An abundance of examples and passages from modern authors illustrate each statement, and numerous references on each page make it possible for the student, if he wishes, to pursue the subject beyond the limits of the book. We wish, however, that the book had a fuller index, so that it might be used for a handy work of reference as well as for a text-book...
...were sorry to see, on the recently published list of college rooms, the announcement that "all persons taking rooms in Holyoke House or Matthews will be required, if they employ any one, to employ the janitor of the building to make fires, etc." Any measure, which like this cuts off all competition, makes the price we have to pay too high, or, which is the same thing, the article which we pay for inferior to what it otherwise would be. At Sever's we are charged an extortionate price for our text-books, because the College destroys all competition...
...curious to make his acquaintance? Then stroll with me across the Yard to University. There he stands at the head of the steps. It is not quite time for recitation, but he has come over early for a purpose all his own. He is reading the notices on the bulletin board, - a very strange thing to do, - while he waits for a victim. He looks innocent as he stands there, but it is the innocence of a spider that is waiting...
...Greek, I have been enjoying some English classic that is none the less profitable because it will not add five per cent to my Greek mark. Indeed, if I should grind continually on my electives, I might score better marks; but at what a cost! What progress should I make in the much-vaunted "general culture"? I do not mean the culture that is obtained by lounging at Parker's, - a kind that is becoming obsolete, thank '78; but the culture that is given by a broad course of reading, - the reviews, of course; George Sand, of a warm afternoon...