Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...DERBY, who is to examine the eyes of the Freshmen for the purpose of comparing their present state with their condition four years from now, will resume his work next Monday. He will meet members of the class in 4 Lawrence Hall, at the following hours...
...have any business, never speak of it out of business hours. Change your clothes when your work is over. I have known some ordinarily stupid men to be witty in evening dress. Pick up all the information that comes in your way. Reading, I know, is often a bore; but it is not difficult to supply its place with the aid of the American one-sidedness of some talkative old specialist. If you want to know something about a legal point, you had better ask a question or two, and start off an amiable lawyer on his profession...
...gentlemen of the Corporation; but let them consider that what they propose is not exactly a fair exchange. For granting us the three days we ask, they propose to take from us six days of vacation which we already have; that is, they propose to make us work two days in September for every day of rest they give us in, April. Thus policy and justice both cry out against the scheme of shortening our summer recess...
NINE men showed themselves on Monday after the recess to begin work at the boat-house. Mr. Dana "coached," while they pulled four hundred strokes. The "time" was rather poor, and as there was too much pressure on the machines, the stroke "dragged." The men of course manifested some awkwardness after their rest, but did as well as could reasonably be expected. The run and walk was a mile and a half in length. The streets were "heavy," but the men got more work on that account...
Thursday, Jan. 11. - Eleven men at work. Captain "coached." Pull five hundred and fifty strokes. Run two miles. The men go too far back in the stroke, and there is a tendency to "jerk" the last part. The arms are not shot out quickly and smoothly enough at the beginning of the recover. The time is good occasionally, but needs more careful attention on the part of the men. To-night a slight improvement in the shoulders and upper part of the body was noticed...