Word: worked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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LAST Monday morning, as I was reclining on my lounge, carefully preparing some work for the next hour's recitation, I heard some one coming up stairs, and presently a postal card was thrust under my door. Alas! as I had feared, it was an invitation to come to the Dean's daily reception. After perusing it for a few moments, I determined to put off my visit till the afternoon. At five o'clock, on arriving at the Dean's office, to my astonishment, I found no one there. There I was, all alone, in the Secretary's room...
...touching song, "Stop that knocking at the door." After having sung this with the customary stamping on the floor, the door was opened, and in came one of the clerks of the University Bookstore, with a little red book in his hand, which he proceeded to explain was a work just published, on a new and very interesting subject, - Political Economy. He wished to call the attention of the Faculty to it. Professor Yellsons, on account of the vocal qualities implied in his name, was appointed to read a chapter of it merely to kill time, since no business could...
...whose truth can hardly be questioned, that, as a rule, college students have remarkably poor memories. Let any upper-class man try to recall some of the studies of his preparatory course, or even of his Freshman year, which have not been brought into requisition by his subsequent work; let him question a majority of his classmates on the same points, and any doubts he may have as to forget-fulness among students will, I think, be removed. The fact is brought before us in a peculiarly vivid manner, with which we are all more or less familiar...
...then, we substitute-mental for written notes, particularly as to the heads of arguments and other matters of the kind; if we pay special attention to whatever memorizing occurs in any of our work, particularly with a view to retaining the matter permanently, by rehearsing it at intervals of a few weeks; if in general we recall and fix in our minds what is tending to slip away, so as to remember more, even though learning less; and finally, if we remember that what is slowest learned is slowest forgotten, and so give more attention to every-day work...
...from the action of the Hartford convention) has dwindled down into something rather superior to an old-time spelling-match, but inferior to a good peppery debate in some Philopolysyllabic fraternity of Western fame. Apropos of the above, we are grieved to learn that black corruption has been at work in the proceedings of the convention. Vide the following extract from the Daily Saratogian...