Word: shirked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...systems are, of course, widely different. The discipline of Oxford inspires in the men a respect for authority and a reverence for the college officials, and develops in them a fine sense of courtesy. On the other hand it seems to occasion among them a tendency to shirk their work and to violate authority somewhat. The Harvard system, as I have said, throws great responsibilities upon its undergraduates, and I believe that they are able to shoulder them. It makes them earnest and gives them an enthusiasm for their work...
...fact of these examinations "being excellent tests to let a man see whether he has worked too much or too little," it seems to me that a man is not at all likely to overwork himself in a course, and if a man is going to shirk work an examination which "counts very little" is not going to produce much effect. These "hours" are too much like the system of marking the recitations, and when four at least are set for the weeks before Christmas, when everybody is tired and wants to get home, the thing becomes an outrage...
...enough simply to contest on Saturday. Every one must take regular, faithful practice, under Mr. Lathrop's direction. We have a working chance of winning back the cup. Shall we? will we do it? Upon every one of us rests some share of the responsibility. Let no one shirk his duty...
...their classes every one, and all their duties shirk...
...haste in trying to get the ball, slipped and fell, tearing a serious rent in his knickerbockers, which necessitated his withdrawal from the field and the filling of his place with a substitute. The other accident happened to a Harvard man, who, in some way smutched his Troy-laundried shirk bosom, obliging him to retire to the gymnasium in order to make a change. These were the only serious accidents of the game. The feature of the game was a remarkable play by the Yale endrush, who, catching the ball with skill which would have made Nausicaa and her maids...