Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Amherst has a Foot-Ball Association, and a team has been selected and set to work. A game is to be played with Yale...
...almost any work which treats of the art of disciplining the memory, it will be found that whatever method succeeds in presenting before the mind the desired fact in an interesting, lively manner is, on the whole, the most certain of successful operation. And so in history it is generally acknowledged that, after fixing firmly in the mind the main facts to be remembered, whatever serves to engage the attention or provoke the imagination changes what otherwise might be a dull chronicle, burdensome to the memory, into a pleasant reminiscence, almost personal in its character, which will never be forgotten...
...last of all, Crusoe Literature. An extensive index at the end gives the men, place, subjects, events, etc., mentioned in the body of the book. Each subject is chronological, beginning, for instance, in American History, with the Northman discovery, ending with the Civil War of 1861. Nearly every work of fiction of any value is included, from Optic's "Frank on the Gunboat" to Lope de Vega's "Probeza no es Vileza." The popular character, fashionable life, provincial and peasant life, so far as possible, are represented; nor are university life, law life, sporting life, sea life, reforms, prison abuses...
...seventeenth century, but it has been considered to be a better translation than could now be made; in reviving it, however, Clough succeeded in correcting many inaccuracies and mistranslations without marring its inimitable style. At the time of its first appearance the revision was highly praised, and the work may be said to have altogether superseded the inferior translation of the one then in common use, Langhorne's. Its republication, in a more convenient and less costly form, will be of peculiar interest to those of us who are familiar with the advanced art electives, since Plutarch is so frequently...
...Index might have saved itself the trouble of putting in the last word. In its case read and work are beyond a doubt synonymous. We must acknowledge, however, the justice of some remarks about the Advocate and the Crimson...