Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...victorious career. Success in the game with Yale on Monday will leave us, unquestionably, the winners of the base-ball championship. Of the success of our crew we can never be absolutely sure until the race is over. Diagonal lines will interfere with the best laid plans; but the work that the crew has done justifies us in feeling confident that if they are beaten, in a race rowed without accidents, their opponents will be a remarkable crew. We wish them, earnestly, every success, both at Springfield and Saratoga...
...which so delights a sub, a graduate cannot endure. Loring's "Two College Friends" is a more truthful picture of Harvard. But this volume of verse, in our opinion, gives a still better insight into College life, and is a better representative of Harvard feeling. We know of no work which will serve so well to remind a student of his College days when away, or which will give his friends so clear an idea of the joyous life he has led here...
...present state of mind, I intend to set the staircase and shoes to work as soon as I can afford it; I sincerely hope that all my friends who are rich enough will do the same; and I shall positively decline, after the publication of this article, to visit any of my enemies on any pretext whatever...
This is not necessarily the result of neglect of work, but of the positive inability of many to master or appreciate the study of mathematics; and students who cannot solve knotty problems themselves are obliged to hire tutors to do it for them; thus the training of the mind, the stock argument in favor of mathematics, becomes applicable to the tutor who does the work, but has no effect upon the student for whom it is intended...
...this good may be, it seems to me to be more than outweighed by the disadvantages which will attend the system. According to this regulation, each and every examination may be called, if not the cause, at least the condition of getting a degree. Is it fair that the work of a single three hours should have such importance? Even good scholars, owing to indisposition, mistakes, or misunderstanding, often do poorly on some one examination. Indeed, I can remember men who rank in the first twenty of their class being warned on an examination in which they had been unfortunate...