Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Williams Fortnight advocates the shingle system in use here, saying: "It is time that we did away with the primitive bits of tattered paper, clinging feebly to the chapel in a mountain gale. Let us welcome the more civilized 'shingle,' natty in appearance, a stimulator to individual society work, and, what is more, a friend that can be admitted to a group of Pach or Notman...
...next few months the gymnasium will be crowded, and the use of the apparatus will be desired by a large number of students. We notice that some men, after finishing exercise, rest on the apparatus until they find it agreeable to themselves to move away, being utterly oblivious of the waiting men who wish to use the same apparatus. Undoubtedly mere carelessness causes this neglect of the rights of others; so that we trust that after this reminder, those who have been careless will be careless no more, promptly moving away from apparatus which they have finished using, that others...
Reading Room. - All who wish can get tickets entitling them to the use of the rooms, at the Co-operative Society. The assessment is $1.00 for members of the Union, for all others $1.50. Subscribers are requested to pay their subscriptions as soon as possible...
...every one who knows what a grind is, least of all the grind himself. If an intermittent cloister-like life of study is what distinguishes the grind, of what use is his life? It is a preparation for greater things coming after, of course. But some grinds do not seem to have any after, except after midnight and high marks. Archimedes was the very Bayard of grinds. But he ground himself into the grave. I remember once hearing that there are grinds at New Haven who are regularly summoned to the Yale "U. 5" for taking too many courses...
...will crystallize into some suggestion of destruction or construction. Evils do exist in our marking system, and they can be eradicated, in some degree, by changing the system. A grading of courses, so that marks received in the harder courses will receive their proportionate weight on the average mark; use of numbers instead of names on the examination books; grading of students by general classes instead of by exact numerical values, all of these are possible improvements over the present system. Objections, however, can be raised against all of them. There is no just marking symtem that is suited...