Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...instructor never knows whether the student understands the subject or not. Again, too much attention is given to the theoretical and too little to the practical side of the subject. It takes so long to work up the great number of principles contained in the lectures, that no time is left to learn their application. As a result, the difficulty of the study is greatly increased, and it becomes impossible to retain what it has cost so much labor to master. This lack of practical drill is the great fault of the whole system. Students hardly ever acquire any facility...
...that the referee had told both crews that each was to keep in its own course from start to finish, - that neither crew, whether leading or not, could take their opponent's water. Captain Thompson explained that the referee's directions to Yale had been given them at a time when he was not with the crew, and that he was thus ignorant of this rule. Accordingly, he withdrew the charge...
...this ballot a majority voted in favor of accepting the challenge. The matter is thus left in the hands of the Executive Committee, who promise to arrive at a decision as quickly as possible. They will have to answer three questions: Can we expect to always so fix the time and place of the Columbia race as to make it subservient to the Yale race? If not, do we care to row Columbia every year any way? If not, are we in any way bound to row them another year by accepting their challenge this year...
...leave Memorial Hall in peace; but complaints have been pouring into us in regard to the short supply of food furnished. The supply of turkey or grapes or milk, or, in fact, of anything more or less palatable, has a strange proclivity for giving out just at the wrong time. The Crew men say that one cannot get decent meat when one happens to come in at a quarter past six, and that this has been often the case, our own personal experience can testify. To be sure, the Steward never refuses to give us something to eat; but, frankly...
...some time since the college papers have called attention to the singing at morning prayers. The singing is much better this year than it was last; but there is still room for improvement. Some members of the Glee Club, whose voices ought to be heard, find it too much trouble to open the hymn-book, or even to sing when some obliging neighbor finds the place for them. It seems a pity to have one of the best musicians in the country play the accompaniment to so small a volume of music. Reform is necessary, and reform...