Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...book-case; and as we are more particularly concerned with this, we leave his species for the present, and shall describe the only other man who can be the possessor of text-books and nothing else. This is a grind of the narrow-minded sort, who studies all the time on the lessons which are set him, but whose mind is chained down to the recitations that he goes to from day to day. He studies French or German perhaps, and takes the highest place on the rank-list in those studies; but to read anything in either language besides...
...Pudding Theatricals in aid of the Boat Club will take place in Boston, Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, on either April 27 and 28 or May 4 and 5, and at either Horticultural or Union Halls. The precise time and place will be announced later. Tickets may be procured the first of next week, at 4 H'y. The play will be the burlesque, "Fair Rosamond." It will be remembered that, by a vote of the Faculty, these are the last theatricals in aid of the Boat Club which can be given by undergraduates. This is, accordingly, the last opportunity...
...very fortunate in reaching here in time to go out to Cambridge Class Day; and now let me tell you all about it. In the cars I met a very charming gentleman, named Mr. Poco, who told me all about the students, and a good many college anecdotes. Pretty soon we came to the Port, where he said the Freshmen, after taking their big Bass further up the river, came nightly to fish for striped Bas, and to shoot ducks. I did not see any water, but suppose I was on the wrong side...
...thought best to go and buy a College paper, and was disappointed to find the Lampoons all sold, and I would not buy the new paper called "Advocate," so I got a heliotype of the Football Nine and went back to the Yard; by this time it was evening, and the trees were covered with jack-o'lanterns, and the Glee Club serenaded the band. I was pained to see how many poor little boys were around, but was told they were the children of the "goodies," and had special privileges...
...what we are doing here at Harvard, and it has set me to thinking upon what strikes me as being a very serious error in our present system. It has become generally admitted in Europe, that one gains more from his University course if he spends his time on one department of study, than by "spreading" himself over a variety of subjects. And even here it is gradually getting to be acknowledged that a thorough education is better than a superficial one. Now, no one will maintain that a thorough education can be gained by electing one or two courses...