Word: unloading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first duty of the men was to unload the boats and carry the baggage to the quarters. Then the men put on their old flannels and waited for supper. In the meantime the Yale and Pennsylvania crews and the Columbia Freshmen were seen on the Columbia Freshmen were seen on the river. At 7.30 supper was served. Afterwards the men gathered on the piazza, and spent the evening very quietly. By ten o'clock everyone was in bed, and the house silent. Everybody was up before 7 o'clock in the morning. As soon as they were dressed the crew...
...another instructor would give seventy-five. Again, a mark of sixty in one course represents work that would receive eighty-five or ninety in another course. Marks, in the third place, represent, at Harvard, work done only in the examination room. A student who has crammed and tutored will unload himself in a blue book and before the returns are in, forgets his knowledge of the whole subject, and yet he receives a mark of eighty, while the steady going student who works from day to day, and whose knowledge is lasting, is rated by the instructor as inferior...