Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cushing, the compiler of the Index to the "North American," is now at work upon a general index of authors, designed in part for aid to libraries in cataloguing. It will contain over thirty thousand names...
...shorter time would give too much advantage to the merely rapid writer; and the necessarily smaller number of questions on each paper would make success more a matter of chance than it now is, and would obviously be a less fair and thorough test of a half-year's work. These faults appear in their most exaggerated form in one-hour examinations; and, if the proposed changes would make such examinations more prominent (as was suggested in an editorial article in the last Advocate, inserted, as we hear, without the assent of the majority of the board), we regard this...
...association has already been started in the college, and it is expected that a very fair team will be ready for work in the spring. It is to be hoped that many will join during the winter, and try to make Harvard first in Lacrosse, as she has been in other games...
...transmit the interest to succeeding classes. The hearty interest and co-operation of instructors does much towards overcoming the latter difficulty, and the former can be overcome by a steady recognition of the fact that no society, whatever its ends, can be kept alive without active and constant work on the part of all interested in it. The active work of the present members of the Finance and Philosophical Clubs deserves all commendation, and we trust that all those who are interested in either political economy or philosophy will not hesitate to give their aid to these organizations...
...work of his Freshman year troubled him somewhat, especially the mathematics. The German, to be sure, was easy enough, and he soon became good friends with the tutor; but he complained that the other instructors were too cold and difficult to approach. Even pecuniary considerations had no influence with them...