Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very exact will be the marks by this new method, which must analyze the understanding with mathematical precision, estimating the work done as the hydrometer measures the alcohol in spirits, at the same time discovering and exposing all the ingenious devices by which examination-papers have been made easy. Every one will be truly gauged according to his actual merit by this unerring machine, which will play havoc with those cunning seekers after college-rank whose sole claim to distinction is the idea entertained by their instructors that they are trying hard. Amiable rank-smiths, there...
...Every member of the graduating class who has attained an average mark of 80 per cent on six hours, or of 75 per cent on nine hours of elective work, not elementary, in any study shall receive HONORABLE MENTION in that study, on the Commencement Programme and in the next following Annual Catalogue. If he has attained an average mark of 80 per cent on twelve hours, or of 90 per cent on nine hours, of elective work, not elementary, he shall be starred as PROFICIENT in that study...
...model one. His negligence and lack of ambition did not promise the wonderful industry of his mature years. But his manly independence in devoting part of his time to literature, instead of struggling to excel his classmates, had a rich result in the literary excellence of his after work...
...Brevity column will be found a part of the new plan proposed by the Committee on Honors and Honorable Mention. Its aim is, by a system of stars, graded degrees, and the like, to distinguish more clearly the nature of the work done by each man in his college course, and to give those men who have not gone in for the regular Honors, nor have had a high general average, some distinction for their ability and proficiency in some one or two studies...
...deliver a lecture, for the benefit of only a small portion of the regular division, especially when the temperature of the room is such that an overcoat is decidedly comfortable. Nothing begins in earnest until Monday; those who do come back do not think of doing any work, but spend their time in grumbling at having to come back before the week is out, and in regretting that they have come back. We hope that the powers that be will consider this matter again, and see whether they think the small amount of gain worth what it costs...