Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...present yourselves. In the first place you should visit the Chapel, although there may be no service going on, and although you may have a few other opportunities of viewing its interior (decorated by Mr. MacPherson). A few moments' meditation there will calm, soothe, and prepare you for the ordeal which must immediately follow. If the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals has not left the key, where he generally keeps it, under the mat, you may obtain it from the Professor of Bell-ringing; or, if you choose, you may climb in through the window, - an easy and pleasant...
...should have to get our news in such a roundabout way ! The dear things have got back from their scarlet-fever vacation, and are enjoying the skating and coasting. They too are suffering from examinations; with this difference, that in order to prevent cramming, the day of the ordeal is not announced beforehand. Well, it's bad as it is, but let us be thankful for our advantages; forewarned is forearmed...
...after the trying ordeal is over, and the "pictures in little" are ready to be scattered among friends, how very unsatisfactory they prove! From the young lady, who bestows her photograph with the remark "Are n't they perfectly awful?" to the acquaintances who agree with her for the nonce, but secretly decide that the picture "flatters dreadfully," there seems to be no one really contented. One expects, of course, to have his pictures criticised, but such criticism is often a delicate matter, and requires some tact, - more tact, at least, than was shown by the man who, on seeing...
...enduring. Very many have been conditioned every year in studies which they could not master without help, and still more have been driven to the expensive alternative of tutoring. Thus the Freshmen, with the exception of the few mathematical minds among them, have been forced to go through an ordeal the only value of which has been the questionable moral training which suffering gives. The private tutors in Cambridge find pupils almost solely in the Freshman class, and very rarely in any subject but Mathematics. It is evident that no study should be required in College which a large number...
...observe the anxiety and curiosity with which the now admitted Freshman takes up his first special paper. On his appearance at lunch with what admiration is he regarded by those who have yet to pass the ordeal? And how the paper is passed from hand to hand with wonder; how eagerly he buys a scrap-book to preserve the precious relic...