Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...marking of one or two instructors have been frequently made in your columns, I venture to ask you to give me space for one more remonstrance. The marks in the different courses in English this year have been very low, - ridiculously so when the nature of the work is considered, - and even men who always obtain high marks in other courses have been rated at 20% and below in this. Men will continue to take these courses, because they are so very interesting, and the recitations are easy to prepare; but when a man has conscientiously worked his best...
...object of these words is not to find fault with the work of this year, but to show what another year may be made to bring forth. Mr. Child is beyond doubt in the right about the elocution question; but if he would make it clearly understood that good reading is a desideratum in his classes, and if the students would endeavor simply to pay attention and to be interested (if they did this they would be obliged to read well), then both the advantage and the enjoyment of the course would be doubled. It is somnambulistic and apathetic reading...
...time, to take as many hours each half-year as we wished, provided that the sum-total for the two half-years equalled twenty-four hours; a privilege which was very valuable to many faithful students. To applicants for honors, particularly, the liberty to take the larger amount of work during the first half-year was very important, as it gave them more time in the spring for the special work which is required for examinations for honors. Again, it greatly lightens the labors of our hard-worked Crew and Nine to be able to assign a large proportion...
...this in the Lit. as particularly good, and do not doubt that those who read it in the Courant, without knowing it to be merely a reproduction, will think it more remarkable than we did. The Courant speaks of another poem in the Lit. ("A Counterfeit Presentment") as "a work of care and difficulty to the writer, which those only who have attempted this style of verse can appreciate; and naturally unintelligible to any whose ears have been attuned to the jingle of the Mother-Goose School." At the risk of being included among the disciples of "the Mother-Goose...
...have kept for special mention in the place of honor, the name of Mr. Finck. His 'cello solo "Legende" was by far the most artistic work of the evening. It is not for us to criticise, but only to say how much we all enjoyed his playing. The Bach Gavotte that he gave when encored was charming...