Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Writers for college papers, like too many other writers, often go to work without in the least considering what they can do successfully. Few have minds filled for all kinds of composition. Yet unhappily most of us never seem fully to realize that we cannot make valuable contributions to every department of literature. We feel that whatever man has done, we can do, forgetting that we are not yet full grown men. We incline to the mistaken view that all the critical reviews, essays, stories, plays, poems, and what not, we write, must be worth printing. To be sure...
...often been said, the first essential for success is sincerity. By sincere writing I mean that into which you have put part of yourself. Like most short definitions, this one means both too much and too little. But when applied to particular cases, it will be limited, or stretched...
...forced to make in justification of the change, form interesting reading to those of us who have long believed that there was no solution of the problem of meeting the demands properly made on American colleges, save by introducing some flexibility into the old traditional curriculum. The fear often expressed that students will generally abuse or unwisely use the liberty granted them of choosing to some extent their studies has not 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...
...starch, sugar, etc. A brain worker requires more fats, and a muscle worker more nitrogenous foods. Over brain exercise sometimes produces insensibility to hunger, and students, after light suppers and long night study, find themselves unable to sleep, although not conscious of lack of food. A light lunch is often a cure for this condition, and is to be advised after prolonged mental effort. The average man requires the food elements in about the proportion of 4 oz. nitrogenous, 3 oz. fats, and 13 oz. sugar, starch, etc. Lack of any one of the elements is sure to produce...
...significant as it is of the use or abuse of Harvard's system, is not a criterion of the ultimate merits or defects of such a system. Professor Palmer shows that, on the whole, Harvard seniors had not abused the privilege extended to them, and thereby refuted the charge often made, that college students are not capable of governing themselves in attendance at recitations. Statistics of attendance at Harvard and Yale cannot be compared unless several facts are taken into account, which Professor Ladd has ignored. The marks of Yale students depend to a greater degree on regularity at lectures...