Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Young men, you can make of yourselves what you will; but a thing once done, is done forever. Live, then, that you may have nothing to look back upon, when you are as old as I am, with regret. Your memories will not fail you; and if you err now, you will have never to be forgotten stains on your lives. You are all authors; each of you at the end of each day has written a page; but what you write can never be erased. Write you books clean, then; live that your memories...
...suggestion, the essence of which appears in our news columns, that class crew tables should be established at Memorial Hall, is particularly timely. That the plan has never been thought of before is the most peculiar thing about it. The question of holding down the expenses of the class crews is as live a one as that of economy in the university crew. Good training food, if a little extra is paid for it, can be obtained at Memorial as well as at any of the high priced boarding houses, and at a much less cost. Consequently, if the crews...
...good note-book in a certain degree as an index of good attendance, and good work. The value to the student is here seen in the mark that he gets. But marks cannot be regarded as anything like accurate measures of value. The mark the student gets is one thing, and the reactionary influence he gets from the mere fact of his taking notes is another, that is quite different, and undoubtedly more important...
...taking notes the student has the subject more strongly impressed upon him. To write a thing is almost to remember it; to have classifications and diversions, chapters and paragraphs in visible form on paper, is to give to them more decided shape in the mind, and therefore, greater possibility of being readily comprehended. The careful note-taker is a sort of artist, and in a page covered with paragraphs, and sub-paragraphs, a-b.c's and 1-2-3's he sees a picture, a closer scrutiny of which reveals to him the thought and life that it represents...
...same pamphlet with President Eliot's report, is that of the treasurer, Mr. Edward W. Hooker. A bewildering mass of tables and figures, it, nevertheless, contains much useful information. The first thing of interest which attracts attention, is the sum of the total invested property of the university, which is placed at $4,803.-938, 36, against $4,623, 895, 57 for the year proceeding. The income was $241, 825, 32, at the rate of the general investments by far the larger part of 5.17 per cent. This is a falling off in rate from the year before partly caused...