Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following list has been carefully revised since last week. It is as complete now as such a list can be made at this time, and includes, we believe, the names of the whole Freshman class...
...meet have limited their ambition for the last few years by the entrance examinations. When those are once passed, they see no reason for further exertion; and they are so anxious to acquaint themselves with the new phase of existence which they erroneously term life, that they find no time for anything else. Their college work is sure to be neglected. Their half-stupid, half-mischievous, wholly careless behavior in the recitation-rooms is sure to exasperate their tutors to the point of numerous warnings...
...same time, if you do not talk about studying, it is not probable that they will trouble themselves enough about you to discover that you are working hard; and as long as you are not caught at it, the more work you do, the better. There is a rather popular theory at college, that all exertion ought to come under the same head. Study and gravel-digging are both dubbed "work," and work of any sort is thought "ungentlemanly," - a horrid word, by the way, which you ought never to use. A man who is always ready for everything, however...
...playing occasional games of poker for undergraduate stakes. And you will not find it difficult to pass most of your mornings in a way which will secure the favor of the Faculty. If any popular movement is on foot, you had better throw aside your work for the time being, and take part in it. But in ordinary times you will find that your evenings will give your classmates quite as much of your company as they will be apt to want, and will, very probably, give you rather too much of theirs. Evenings ought to be devoted to pleasure...
...enough of culture and too much"; and from another source, that culture is the aim of a University education. The result of all this is, that we are in very nearly the same condition we were a week ago. In one respect we are changed. The leisure time that hung so heavily upon our hands is leisure time no more. Long lists of profound and valuable works have been given us, and reading sufficient to occupy the time of an industrious man for ten years at least has been furnished for the next nine months. Those who have taken courses...