Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...swiftness with which the minutes pass, and also to the imperfect powers of man. This, I think, but a fair request, for, when more is expected than a mere answer to the questions, the questions themselves should be such that they will allow time for the extra work. When the instructor looks over the books, I trust he will bear in mind the fact that they were written, in some parts, by mortals who were prevented, by a longing for lunch, from giving up their whole minds to Rhetoric...
...work is to commence on the boat-house at once, all personal property, except boats, must be removed...
...great advances that have and are continually being made in literature and science, spoke of the original investigations in science which are going on among us, but of which certainly few undergraduates have any knowledge. Professors Gray, Whitney, Gibbs, Lovering, Cooke, Shaler, Trowbridge, and Jackson are all at work in their several departments making scientific researches, and writing up the results they have obtained. Motley has been elected a member of the French Academy; Professor Newcomb, a graduate of our Scientific School, has received honors from four foreign societies; while Dr. Gould, another astronomer, has been elected a member...
...boat-house has at last passed out of the hands of the H. U. B. C. into those of the College, and the work of remodelling the building is to begin immediately. The change is for the better, and a new impulse will be given to boating. The Corporation has made no present to the H. U. B. C., but their action is as liberal as could be expected, considering both their own position as to the funds at their disposal, and their knowledge of the manner in which business in general is carried on by undergraduates...
These evils, I am glad to say, the Advocate intends to correct. May I, without presumption, urge you also to join heartily in the good work? The necessity for action is only too evident when we reflect that by following our base example, and letting the ignoble body attain the ascendency over the glorious mind, hundreds will be doomed to utter darkness. Your contemporary assures us that "at Harvard, the man of fashionable illiteracy and European dress has his idolatrous imitators." Shall we not rise at once, then, like one man, and put down these evil influences? I should suggest...