Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...College papers. The Executive Committee have found it impossible to maintain order in the Boat-House, and to pay the necessary expenses, without taking this action. The necessary expenses a year are: Four hundred dollars for rent, about eighty dollars for water, and fifty dollars for janitor's work. Any member of the University can become a member of the H. U. B. C. by paying three dollars and signing the Constitution. The rent of lockers is two dollars a year; of rests, ten dollars...
...traits in common with the inhabitants of the nursery. We have an abundance of new toys, and we are always ready to discard our last plaything for a new one. It may be that this is caused partially by the necessity of shifting so often our interest in our work. One naturally feels unsettled when he has his interest aroused in the currency movement of the present day, and has suddenly, on the approach of an examination, to carry his mind back several centuries to devote himself to the consideration of mediaeval institutions. It is certainly possible that this unsteadiness...
SEVERAL changes have been made in reference to the required work of Junior and Sophomore years. The movement which tends to make our courses of study more and more elective is steadily progressing, and we may hope to see in a year or two all required studies confined to Freshman year...
...Faculty have voted to omit from the studies of Junior year that of Rhetoric, so that in future Juniors will have only two hours of required work through the year besides themes and forensics. Junior and Sophomore Rhetoric will be consolidated, thus making Sophomore Rhetoric a two-hour course for the entire year. Physics is to become a Freshman study only, and the Sophomores will have four hours' required work instead of six. Political Economy and Constitution will be replaced by some course in history, the nature of which has not yet been decided on; but the course will probably...
...race at Springfield have been completed. Two judges from each college and a member of the Regatta Committee are still to be appointed, and after that we shall be able to give all our attention to the crews themselves. A position on the Regatta Committee is so full of work and responsibility that it is absolutely necessary that the right man be chosen for the place. There must be no mistakes this year in the management of the race. The demands that have been made of the city of Springfield are reasonable. It is simply asked to keep order...