Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wilson, a graduate of Harvard, is reported as about to assume Prof. Lyman's duties for the rest of the term. - [News...
Notwithstanding the urgent request that we should all return promptly at the beginning of the term, several are still absent and the chapel shows quite a number of vacant seats...
...winter term, the busiest of all, has fairly begun, after the pleasant rest of the holidays. We are looking forward to three months of steady work, to be enlivened, however, by readings from Shakspere, lectures on art, and other pleasant variations from the routine of study...
...that the semis are so near at hand, the men who have done a fair amount of work during the term, are to be envied. It is a common fault at Harvard for men to neglect the preparation of their daily work, and to depend almost entirely upon an unnatural amount of very hard and concentrated work just before examination. The bad effects of this manner of studying are so obvious, that they scarcely need mention, but to bring freshly before the mind of the student the great mistake made by so many in this direction, we will call attention...
...first place, the preparation of almost a whole term's work in a week or ten days, when the receptive faculties of the mind have been in a nearly torpid state for several months, is a terrible strain, which will show its effects upon any one, no matter how strong he may be, both mentally and physically; it is like severe physical labor, after a long period of rest and idleness...