Word: parteing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that sort of thing, are not feats which I should call characteristic of gentlemen. To be sure, in nine cases out of ten this behavior is due to mere thoughtlessness, and I do not doubt that many a good fellow - in every sense of the word - has taken part in it. But I am sure that by such behavior a man gains neither in self-respect nor in caste, - for want of a better word; and if these societies make any overtures to you - as I cordially hope that they will not - I must beg of you to politely decline...
...much is made to depend upon the Annual and Semiannual examinations that instructors ought to require as little purely mechanical work in the examination-room as possible. The case is aggravated when an instructor, to all appearances simply from neglect, makes men use up unprofitably a large part of the three hours which are so valuable to all, and during which some may be laboring for their very collegiate existence. In the examination in History 3 last Monday, a serious and unnecessary hindrance stood in the way of the best possible work. Instead of furnishing printed papers, - a custom which...
...result of the race. A man always prizes that the most for which he has worked the hardest. The indifference of the crews in last year's races is not therefore to be wondered at, and it is the experience of past years that hard work on the part of the crews makes a race much more interesting to those who pull as well as to those who see it. Holyoke, though not always having the best men, has been much the most successful of the clubs, and the secret of its success as well as of the interest taken...
...that Analytical Geometry is too difficult a study for that class, and that a further diminution of mathematics in the Freshman year would be advisable. The Committee also recommend that Junior Logic and Themes be introduced into the curriculum of the Freshman year, thus supplanting the for the most part painful and useless study of Triangles and Hyperbolae in favor of English studies which are indispensable to the education of even moderately informed persons. As required studies have been taken from the other classes, they have been imposed upon the all-suffering Freshmen, until with Mechanics and four branches...
Wednesday, Jan. 24. - Twelve men present. Pull eight hundred strokes, and run two miles. The worst fault is still the hurried recover. Preston fails as much as any to part with this. He gets a trifle too much reach with his body, reaches around with his outside shoulder, fails to sit up always at the finish, and does not pull his hands in high enough. His chief fault is that of using his arms too much. At no part of the stroke are they straight. He works well, but should put more fire into the stroke. Harriman...