Word: worked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have breakfast after half past eight, are few compared with those who have so far appeared at the Hall before Chapel exercises. To be sure, the post-Chapel is much inferior to the pre-Chapel breakfast; but, if this sacrifice on the part of a few who prefer to work at night and sleep in the morning is productive of a great convenience to a much larger body who prefer daylight, we believe no one will be so unjust as to complain...
...announcement of the studies for the year 1877 - 78 is prefaced by the notice that, hereafter every student will be required to register on the first day of the college year. In view of the delay that has hitherto attended the getting the college into working order, we think that this requisition will be generally commended, even though it interferes in some degree with what has come to be known as the Senior privilege. Among the additions to be made next year, we notice a course in Homeric philology, designed for persons intending to become teachers; four courses in German...
...such an example, simply offer our congratulations to the Beacon for its peculiarly elevated style and tone. May we suggest, however, that it is not universally acknowledged that the line "Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow," is by Shakespeare. Some persons contend that it is the first line of a lost work, "The Traveller," by an obscure poet named Goldsmith. We are in perfect sympathy with the Beacon, and only doubt whether it praises sufficiently the institution which it represents. It is absurd for the Argus to speak of local pride and petty conceit. When a great and famous University, situated within...
...prize essays are well enough, since they stimulate literary activity without involving cramming; but why examinations of the partial character announced should be made the object of intercollegiate contest it is hard to see. They call forth work, but not of the right kind. To examine a man on a play of AEschylus and orations of Demosthenes and AEschines cannot make him a broad Greek scholar, but will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary...
...thorough knowledge of the whole subject, their extent renders useless any special preparation previous to examination. In the Classics, the main tests are reading at sight and composition. In Philosophy, the requirements are about five times as great as those of the I. C. L. In Mathematics, work equivalent to the Association's requirements is demanded for passing the examination for Second Year honors. Until, then, a diploma from the Association shall mean more than one from Harvard, we must be excused for continuing our bigoted and conservative course...