Word: ups
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Lit up the dusky place;
Extra labor may be a pleasure at times when the worker is conscious that the task is self-imposed; but few things can be more irksome than surplus work forced upon us for which we get no thanks, no credit, and which we have to do to make up past...
The amount of knowledge that excuses Sophomores from these additional hours of recitation is not great. The ability to read easy French prose can be acquired without much effort during the summer months. An hour of real study daily would do it. A fair knowledge of the grammar, especially of...
THE Sophomore second-crew is now made up as follows: S. Kittredge, stroke, F. Minot, R. W. Guild, J. B. Olmstead, H. Sargent, J. Wheelwright, bow and captain.
But this aversion has also other causes. It does not proceed alone from the method of instruction, but from the very nature of the subjects taught. We are forced to study wholly useless subjects, several centuries old, which custom retains in the University courses without other reason that that of...