Word: note
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...times, customs, and habits of the people they illustrate. As students, the greater part of us are too indifferent to study a history in connection with our reading, but would willingly listen to a course of lectures involving no further effort on our part than an occasional note. This is a want really felt, and we hope it soon will be supplied...
...candor of the chronicler is shown in a foot-note, as follows: "I understood that the building was to be sold for forty-five dollars...
...NOTE. - Postponed from 16th to 17th because of rough water, and again to 18th for the same reason...
These considerations may furnish an excuse for the rather startling proposition at the head of this article: Note-Books at Examination. In college life we can master but little, yet we can learn where to look for a great deal. Whether our attention is sufficiently turned in that direction is a question I would candidly ask. Many an hour spent on rereading and memorizing notes when we have already sufficient understanding to use them as a work of reference, could be far more advantageously spent on subjects connected with our study. Notes on this outside reading would be so much...
...examination. I did not in the least mind finding three fellows in my bed and two on the lounge, but took these little matters as a matter of course. Poor Sam! that night was a finishing touch to his chances of being dropped, and in August a note from the Dean put an end to his and my vacation pleasure...