Word: worked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meals we feel more like gentlemen and less like pigs, but in coming away sometimes we feel a little like deluded gentlemen. Often we carry back from breakfast to our rooms and lectures a goodly spicing of the old unsatisfied, disgusted feeling, so hindering to cheerful spirits and successful work...
...which he casts his vote. The powers that be in Harvard realize this fact. In the second half of their Sophomore year our fellow-students are required to devote a portion of their time to the study of the subjects in question, and, if they do not neglect their work, it is reasonable to suppose that they will learn enough to render them intelligent and useful members of the political community. The comments of a skilled instructor during a four months' course would be more beneficial than the disconnected arguments of more or less unpractised debaters during as many years...
Unfortunately, the greater part of the present Sophomore class have failed to perceive this fact. Taking advantage of the anticipation examinations so liberally offered by the Faculty, they rushed to the examination-room, eager to be freed from all presumably incongenial required work. A day or two of "cramming" had been enough to give them a momentary knowledge of their subjects; this knowledge they poured into their books as freely and as thoughtlessly as they would have poured water into a bowl, and their heads were left, as far as political science went, in a condition very like that...
...likes and dislikes that former classes have taken to instructors. If this pamphlet were issued we should elect courses instead of men. The prejudiced statements of men who have had the elective would be taken for what they are worth, and we should have a satisfactory description of the work done, apart from the amenities or human frailties of the instructors...
PRINCETON is in trouble, according to the Nassau Lit. It appears that, for some unexplained reason, the chamber-work in the college dormitories is done by a "clumsy, dirty set of men, who are better fitted by ability, odor, and appearance to act as scavengers, than to have free access to the parlors and bedrooms of gentlemen." This the Princeton students rightly consider a grievance. They feel the need of the soothing influence of woman's presence, and of the smoothing influence of woman's hand, - especially upon their pillows and bedquilts; and they send forth a noble appeal...