Word: overworking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...folly and evils of reckless overwork have within the past few weeks been brought forcibly to the notice of every student. We need not comment upon the sadness of the cases in question, but the lesson they contain cannot be too strongly emphasized. This is the season when hard work is most fatiguing, and yet most necessary. An ambitious student, trusting to the approaching vacation for rest and recovery, is tempted to strain every nerve, and, before he is hardly conscious of his danger, he may do himself irreparable injury. Even the strongest constitution and the most faithful exercise will...
...mentioned, many had taken the elective who had no great knowledge of the subject, but who expected, by diligent work, to succeed tolerably well; the examination was of such difficulty that most of them failed, and the result will be that during the second half-year they will either overwork or neglect their work, thinking that labor is of no avail...
...enough men take an elective to overcrowd it, (that is to say, either to diminish the benefit of the course, or to overwork the instructor), the proper remedy is, either the addition of more electives in that branch, or, in case the instructor has reason to believe that the course is taken on account of its ease, there should then be an increase the next year in the amount of work done in the course, and a clear statement of the additional work should be put in the list of electives...
...grinds among those who are working for a summa cum, none of us begin to do the amount of work that is performed by those who teach us. It can be shown, we think, that in proportion to their whole number, more instructors than students have broken down from overwork. For the sake of us both, then, gentlemen of the Corporation, attend to this prayer...
...They procure to their devotees real and permanent bodily strength. College students are killing themselves, they tell us, by severe overwork - !* Pray, when and where is there any such sacrifice of youthful health to the genius of intellectual industry? . . . . Why does not some one talk complainingly and clamorously of college students, about their irregular hours of eating and sleeping, their continual closeting of themselves in ill-ventilated rooms, their almost universal use of narcotics, their frequent want of any inspiring aim, and their abounding mental slothfulness...