Word: tenfold
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which some persons have seen fit to indulge at the expense of the men trying for the University eleven. The work of the candidates is hard and trying even when they are encouraged by the men around them. But when their efforts are greeted with derision the work becomes tenfold harder and more discouraging. If anyone thinks that the work of the men deserves his jeers, nothing is easier than that he show his superiority by coming in the field and doing the work better. We trust that those who are not gentlemen enough by instinct to avoid hurting...
...James has tried the plan. At the hour examinations given to his classes this year and last, no proctor was placed in the room. It was then that the real force of public opinion was felt. No man dared to cheat. Each man felt that the shame would be tenfold greater than if he should be caught cheating under the eye of a proctor. The element of daring, of dull satisfaction at the cunning evasion of the sharp glance of a policeman was entirely taken away. There was instead a feeling of pride that the instructor had shown his appreciation...
...happy by exemption from the theme and forensic work which is exacted from his less fortunate undergraduate brethren. But is it not, after all, a pleasing little fiction? What can seem more natural than that the student who, from his position on a paper, is obliged to do tenfold the amount of writing required from his more fortunate fellows, should have his labors lightened somewhat by a regulation of this nature...
...instructor would be glad to have by him at any time for reference and information. If the income of the library is too small to print these free of cost, a small charge, to cover the cost of editing and printing, would not be burdensome and would be repaid tenfold by the trouble saved. For our library, there might be an account of how to find files of papers, where certain large reference books and maps are kept, the bound volumes of the college papers, the alcoves assigned to the various instructors, how to use the card catalogues most quickly...