Word: manner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been shown by our experience to be well founded. Doubtless a few indolent persons will elect what they regard as easy work. But they will even then accomplish as much as they do when forced to attempt hard work, which they never perform except in the most perfunctory manner. No plan will make the college career of lazy men brilliant. The advantage to industrious men of generous liberty of choice of studies, after they have made a fair advance in fundamental and elementary studies, is very pronounced. And the work of a college should be organized to meet the needs...
...rather inclined to believe they will not give them much weight. It seems absurd to call Yale a University, and then asking that optional studies may be altogether discontinued. Yale needs more elective studies, so as to give every man an opportunity to improve himself in a manner which he deems wisest. I believe a man entering college is capable to make his choice of electives, and a great many men often discuss the matter over with friends and teachers before entering. To give up optional studies is going just one step in the wrong direction, and is almost sure...
FORENSICS.The thesis of the senior forensic work will be due on Tuesday, March 9 '86. The thesis of the junior forensic work will be due on Tuesday, March 23, 1886. - Subjects for junior and senior theses are to be chosen in the same manner as was announced for the choice of the subjects for the first forensic...
...members of a certain course in our English department have just had their attention called, in a most striking manner, to one custom in college life which has become so common where it is not regarded as a perfectly legitimate practice, as to be looked upon as a very light offence. We refer to the habit of "cribbing." That a man should have so little sense of honor as to deliberately copy sentence after sentence from a book, or degrade another man by hiring him to write his theme, indicates a code of morals which is difficult to understand...
...Dedham with a lead of one. During the last round, however, her shooting was poor, but Harvard's shooting continued steady, and the score was 18 to 13; thus giving the match to Harvard with a total of 67 to 63. The team was treated in a most courteous manner by the Dedham Club. The following is the Harvard score...