Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...captain, Mr. Bancroft, seems to be making every exertion to fit his men for seats in the winning boat, and his efforts are earnestly seconded by the earnest work of the candidates. Mr. Dana is at present coaching the crew with good success...
...know that some believe that the object of these examinations is to obtain from the students thorough daily work, and that they ought not to study up for them. Against the end proposed I have nothing to say, - it is what is needed here above all things, - but that it will ever be attained by such examinations as these I most decidedly do not believe. As long as examinations are announced beforehand, just so long will men, if for no other reason, because they know that other men will read up for them, and fear to be ranked lower than...
...receptive minds of the members of that class. Gentle Freshman, be not afraid of the examiner, for he is not as terrible as he looks. You know that you will not be called up in your Greek to-day, for it was only yesterday that you made such frightful work of it. Brown, Smith, and Jones - specimen bricks, pride of the instructor's heart, who have read up all their Grote - will be the unlucky ones...
...came to the same conclusion about five years ago. The petition sent to the Corporation says that the interests of the students demand the recess; we may say that the well-being of the instructors demands it still more. Except the very hardest grinds among those who are working for a summa cum, none of us begin to do the amount of work that is performed by those who teach us. It can be shown, we think, that in proportion to their whole number, more instructors than students have broken down from overwork. For the sake of us both, then...
...notice the little shortcomings under which he is laboring, enables him to see where he is ignorant when he should be wise, and in various ways removes stumbling-blocks over which he would otherwise fall at the Semiannuals and the Annuals. These short examinations make easier the work of both instructors and students and as they are for the advantage of both, it seems to us that they should be arranged with some reference to the convenience of both. In some cases the convenience of students has been consulted when the time was fixed for these simple recreations; in other...