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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...branch of study, and being compelled to pass examinations in other branches, will tutor up in the latter rather than spend the time necessary to work them up alone. Then, also, there are usually a number of boys in Cambridge and Boston fitting for Harvard under private tutors, often college students...
...student takes full notes of lectures in some course, then manifolds them with a copygram, by copying or by printing, and sells the copies at handsome prices. Often the compilers add to the notes taken in the lectures, the results of long, tedious hours of grinding in the library, systematize and index the whole, and publish them in the form of book leaves. One of these leaves, containing four or eight pages, comes out two weeks or so after the lectures are delivered. At the end of the year, if bound together, they make a most valuable book. Last year...
...said he had often been in the unpleasant predicament where it was necessary to accompany a woman to some place of amusement with another man, and he had experienced great difficulty in arranging the manner of sitting together. "If you put the woman in first," said he, "and let the other fellow sit between you she does not like it." I wondered why, but said nothing. "And if you put the woman in the middle," he continued, "it bothers her to keep up the conversation; she is obliged to do all the 'running,' because if you talk...
...given the professor, going sometimes so far as to convert the instructor into a mere automatic registering machine, the impossibility of a fair and accurate adjustment of relative rank, and above all the danger of leading students to work for marks rather than for broad scholarship, have been so often and so forcibly demonstrated as to need no more than mention. These evils we avoid. The students in the seminary courses have no further incentives than the love of the study and the natural emulation that arises of working together. They have no reward other than the knowledge and training...
Tennis-players are indefatigable and persistent. Their industry and enthusiasm is generally to be admired. Nevertheless, we have heard the fastidious object to one extreme to which the eagerness of the players of this fascinating game often leads them. That, in the very midst of the most exciting match games with different colleges, played on Jarvis or Holmes, tennis courts should be in active operation in the near vicinity, utterly regardless of the patriotic contest going on so near, does seem remarkable, to say the least. The bobbing of a tennis ball is a delightful sight-in its proper time...