Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...doer of this great work, Fate, who metes out justice to all, will not suffer to go unrewarded. The spirits of Stoughton, Hollis, and Holworthy, his precursors in earthly benefaction, now dwell in Elysian fields of perpetual bliss...
...more than every student should give to physical exercise; and such time is given by a small proportion of the men in this College. Any one who compares the record of our spring sports with that of the recent sports in England, will not fear that we suffer from too much attention to athletics. It is true that the few who do devote time to athletic exercises are sometimes injured by them, but this very fact shows the great need of a professor of hygiene in the College. Under the instruction of such a professor men would not attempt...
...people whom it as quickly attracts. Nor should the college oarsmen fail to remember that, as one of the newspaper correspondents said last summer, "a well-managed crowd and successful boat-race are inseparable," and that, though all the crowd are not graduates, all the graduates in the crowd suffer whatever it suffers. There are several hundreds of these Harvard and Yale men who would be glad each year to finish up their Commencement celebration by witnessing a race between the representative boats of the two colleges, provided they can witness it quickly and inexpensively; and those...
...very honest hard-working men. These scouts are in our employ, subject to our orders alone, and we, if dissatisfied, can always discharge them. Should janitors be appointed, we should still pay, but the College would employ, and in their attempts to serve two masters, one must suffer, and we should be the one; our dissatisfaction would make no difference as long as the College was suited, and we should have no power of discharging. In other words, the College dictates to us whom we shall employ, and kindly allows us to pay her servants...
...truth were known, those who create this disturbance would be found to be some who attend the lectures merely because they are obliged to, who are not desirous to understand them, and who expect to barely pass the examination by pure cramming. Rather than have the whole class suffer for the misconduct of two or three boyish, thoughtless members, they should be exposed...