Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...aspirants for the ball and boating laurels. What we do earnestly wish is to be allowed to play our little game all the year round, and to receive the good-will and support of the undergraduates. On these conditions the College may consider the foot-ball team pledged to work doubly hard, in spite of gloomy auspices, for the athletic honor of the University...
Stuff! young man. Are men respected at college because they work and try to do their duty? and do you suppose the world at large appreciates merit any more than we do here? My young friend, your education has been seriously neglected. Do not let the insane idea that justice exists this side of the grave possess...
...public, - of course optional with the editors, - we see that those papers are the least inclined to be biassed that have connected with their editorial rooms college graduates. This point becomes more important when we remember that the number of college graduates who go into journalism - meaning newspaper work - is doubling every year, notwithstanding Horace Greeley's famous remark that he "would rather have a bull in a china shop...
...interest which the distinguished artist assumes? Are there not many men, on the other hand, who, not having any particular interest in what they are doing, nevertheless make no pretence to seem interested? There are, I think, three classes of students, - those who have a real interest in their work, those who have no interest and never make believe that they have, and finally the Mr. Digby who "runs up to the instructor after recitation." This gentleman now declares that the majority of undergraduates are classed with him and do as he does; that more than half of us feel...
...funds will be begun. There are two separate funds, - one the Class Fund, and the other the Class Subscription Fund. These two funds in '75 amounted to $20,000, and were in the care of the Class Secretary. Now, as this office in itself involves a great deal of work, and the management of the class moneys is now such an additional tax on the person under whose charge they are, it seems as if the duties might well be divided; formerly when a class consisted of only some sixty or seventy men, and the funds were only a thousand...