Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...manner of spending the summer vacation. Once more, as usual, the gawky Freshman and the self-important Senior are seen in our midst. There are probably, as there always have been, and will be, the usual number who come back with the purpose to stand high, work hard, and get all the possible good from the College; others who are simply content to get through, with the fraction of a per cent to spare; others, again, who have no aim at all, judging the future by the past. During the next year, it is safe to say, the usual number...
There has been of late years, about rowing here at Harvard, a great deal to pay, a great deal of work, and precious little fun. Somehow things were so managed that it was all paying out with nothing coming in. Expensive boats were bought, used for one race, and then laid on the rests to rot. The University Boat-House was kept, at the expense of all, for the use of a few patient fellows, who were trained and scolded and worked, and then beaten. To afford cheap rowing for all another boat-house was built, and another...
...float and grounds about the boat-house swarmed from time to time with what we at Cambridge call "muckers." These loafers intruded upon us when we were at work in the boat-house, got in our way when we were going out or coming in with our boat, and provoked us generally with their insulting remarks...
...therefore, of our editorial friends at Yale and elsewhere for making one more allusion to the Hall. We have not always been so fortunate as to agree in every point with the Board of Directors, but, looking at their labors as a whole, we confess that their year's work is very creditable to them. They took the Hall embarrassed by an incompetent steward, and with a small membership; they leave it flourishing, with a fair membership, and its management in the hands of a steward who gives very general satisfaction. The price of board has been brought down...
...safe to say that much was not expected; for the selection of the committee was at the very best but a leap in the dark, and nobody had any expectation of landing on terra firma. Certain it is that if by terra firma is meant good faithful work, the result shows a wide gap between land and water. For ourselves, we saw at the time no reason why Mr. Notman should be cast aside and the self-styled (Cambridgeport) "Celebrity Photographer" should be employed in a work which requires tact, taste, and skill. By remembering just where...