Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...chum is, or to ask my chum where I am, or to ask us both where some one else is. When he has found out he goes contentedly back to his room, to sit down and think about it, I suppose. He don't want to see the man he asks for, not at all. It is only his consuming thirst for knowledge that makes...
...inclined to enroll myself among those who think that an undue prominence is given to the muscular, as compared with the intellectual, in our universities. Assuming, however, for the present, that they are wrong, and that a "stroke oar" is a more enviable man than a "summa cum laude," let us examine the question on the principle that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well...
...whether the conclusion is logical or not, it is what the powers above us declare to the world to be the fact. Last year a man passed the examination for honors in history. His mark in all his historical courses had been above that required for honors, and they were about to be assigned him, when it was discovered that the number of hours taken up by his electives in history was one short of the required amount. He accordingly graduated without honors in history. No one denied that he knew enough to entitle him to the distinction, but that...
...general rule, take four three-hour electives. They are obliged to take twelve hours, and this is ordinarily the most convenient division of the twelve. It often happens that one of the four courses has some particular interest which the others lack, or two may interest a man and the other two bore him; or he may search the list in vain for four courses all of which he is willing and able to take, and find perhaps three; settle upon them, then discover that every other course he wants conflicts with one of the three; - in all cases...
...outside reading to be done was "simply enormous." Those who have taken the course have found already that he did not exaggerate the state of the case. The work corresponds to that of an historian collecting the materials for volumes upon which his fame is to rest. The man who has this course may have two others upon which he must do hard work; then, by the regulation of the Faculty, he must take something else to fill up his time! This is a regulation that seems to me unnecessary. I do not propose that Seniors should have three courses...