Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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TACKS should not be driven into the wood-work of Memorial Hall. There are bulletin boards provided on each side of the swinging doors...
...perhaps a fact worth mentioning that, although most of the revision was done in England, the idea was conceived and the work begun by Clough here in Cambridge during his brief residence in America...
...present system of instruction. In the first place, the lectures are not made clear enough. The instructors pass on from point to point with such rapidity that it is often impossible to take intelligible notes. The student has little or no opportunity to ask questions, and is left to work out obscure points by himself. So, until an examination reveals the fact, the instructor never knows whether the student understands the subject or not. Again, too much attention is given to the theoretical and too little to the practical side of the subject. It takes so long to work...
...unfortunate enough to have several courses which require constant attendance at the Library, and, in common with many others, have found considerable difficulty in attending to my work there with any degree of comfort. The seats provided are so few that on several occasions I have not been able to procure one; and as my work lay among reference books, which are not allowed to go out, I have been obliged to postpone what I had to do. The same difficulty has been experienced by several of my acquaintance, and no doubt by many others. Since the Library has received...
...frankly speaking, pork and ham and pressed hash are not exactly the kind of diet most men have a craving for. The pears have been miniature brickbats, and the grapes not always what they should be. Another grievance comes, however, from the opposite quarter. Certain men, who presumably work in Boylston Hall, will persist in coming into Memorial, and sitting down to table with a respectable set of men, when they are reeking with vile chemical odors, the offensiveness of which they seem to ignore...