Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expenditure; but they are by no means so high as they were several years ago, before the Co-operative Society was formed. Indeed, to this society Harvard men are now owing an economy in college expenses, which had been impossible before the society's existence. It is our unpleasant task to recall the embarrassments which fell upon the society last spring. Let it be hoped, as it may well be expected, that no such embarrassments will occur again. The interest which prevailed at that time and by which the Co-operative was saved an inglorious fall, is good evidence...
Yesterday the first revolutions of the cumbrous wheels of the college machine made us aware that a new, and for many of us the final, year of student life had begun. To-day the mill is in full swing, busily engaged in the task of grinding out its annual grist of A. B.'s. The clang of the prayer bell, followed by the rush of tardy footsteps over the crunching gravel, reminds us that prayers, like the poor, "we have always with us." The genial face of John, that unique example of Catholic "Orangeman:" the thought-furrowed brow of General...
...encounter-and the number is by no means a small one-none can be said to give him more trouble and hard labor than that of studying understandingly and well amid the thousand and one pleasures and distractions that surround him. Study which is such a hard task for a school boy, becomes well nigh impossible to the college student who is no longer aided and guided by the walls of his home and the close scrutiny of his parents. No work can well be done by a man who allows himself to be blown hither and thither...
...last yard concert, to keep the mucker element at a proper distance, are but the beginnings of an action still more stringent and effective. A little energy and firmness, would very soon teach the objectionable young mucker that his place is not in the yard, and his task not to make himself as disagreeable, and everybody else as uncomfortable, as possible. Perhaps a good strong policeman, with a stronger "billy," would be as effective as anything else. But a policeman could not attain complete success, if he had not the co-operation of the students. Much more, then...
...only manner in which he can gain a knowledge of such studies, is by outside reading. The establishment of courses of summer reading should be made general throughout the college. The effectiveness of the present system of study would be enormously increased while conforming to the convenience and task of all. The students would by this means be saved from the too common aimless reading of leisure moments, and would have their minds directed into a channel which would repay every effort, at the same time that it would relieve the harsher strain of studies more peculiarly collegiate in their...