Word: master
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yours, '81."Sept. 12, 1771. Having studied late into the night last eve over that very difficult problem in Euclid, called the pons asinorum, I over-slept myself this morning beyond six o'clock. On this account I was unable to cleanse the shoes of my master F., a Senior, but was obliged to hurry to Chapel. Consequently, when I returned after breakfast, F. called me into his room, and taking down a whip he is wont to use in riding, despite my entreaties, he so belabored my shoulders that I almost fainted. This is the first occasion that...
...cold in the Yard this morning, that I put on my cap in going to recitations, which is contrary to rule. M., a Junior, saw me and threatened to tell my master, F., who would have flogged me soundly; but I bought M. off by giving him a shilling...
...instructor in Greek 3, however, especially encouraged men to take the course again, and so finish reading Herodotus. The course has been shown to be perhaps the most profitable Greek course for the majority of men, - those who wish to attain facility in reading Greek rather than to master technicalities which they must soon forget, unless they expect to teach. Now the Echo's assumption, that this facility is gained in the work of two hours a week for some thirty weeks, implies a facility of acquiring the Greek language which few (probably none) have. Professor White certainly makes...
...master Plato's tongue. Now, if you please...
...upon them. As the writer says, those who do not engage their time very early in the term are even deprived of the benefit of fifteen minutes' instruction a week. Of course no very great progress can be made in such limited time, even with the best master, but we cannot see that the section system would be an improvement, as instruction to a section of six for an hour is the same as reducing the time for each member to ten minutes instead of fifteen; for elocution is not a study which can be pursued like history or political...