Word: rates
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Frank Peabody from the Law School. His departure merits more than a passing notice, for his absence will be felt not merely by the Crew itself, but in all our rowing interests. The value of Mr. Peabody's work last year, not only in his capacity of a first-rate oarsman, but in his coaching, and in his readiness to lend his experience and time to whatever helped to raise the standard of rowing, cannot be too strongly emphasized; and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that few men have ever done more in a year to improve Harvard...
...carpenters. However, he received me with dignified cordiality, and proceeded to give me points on his rooms. "Here, you see," he remarked, "these pictures are going to be hung in a row; they don't amount to much, but are handsomely framed, and I thought they would be first-rate to hang my medals on. Won't you propose me for the Art Club...
...privilege have been warned by the experience of their predecessors of the danger of abusing it, the evil of which the Faculty complain will cure itself in due time, and then, the advantages, without the drawbacks usually attending privileges when at first granted, will be demonstrated. At any rate, the system should have a fair trial, and too frequent changes in the methods of instruction, with a policy so constantly vacillating that no plan of study can be carried out, must very soon necessitate a return to the prescribed system...
...their industry. Many graduates can testify how much a good position in various courses on the Commencement programme was esteemed and worked for, and how many Seniors, for the first time, did work, and realized profit from Senior courses. Let us return, if not this year, at any rate next, to the old system; for the reasons for altering it are not apparent, but the reasons for returning to it are both apparent and weighty...
...hardly know," said Digger. "I may be the younger Pliny; at any rate I'm a Junior...