Word: works
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...awakening unpleasant memories. Fancying that I would have a soft thing on geology while at sea, I thought of taking that, but I have given it up, for they tell me one of the Yale professors lectures three times a week in that course, and nine hours of laboratory work in the "harness-cask" are required...
...splendid drop-kick. Soon afterwards a touch-down was made by Bacon. Of the Tufts men Eaton, Fuller, and Perry played especially well. The feature of the game, however, was the running and dodging of Cushing, and the drop-kicking of Blanchard. Holden and Bacon also did some good work...
...intercollegiate contests. Although Harvard has never felt inclined to enter these contests, she has not been uninterested in them. The judges have invariably been men who have acquired a reputation in the subjects to which they were assigned; and in this way many of the contestants have had their work assayed in a much juster manner than would be possible in the contestants' own colleges. But the public have not yet been able to discover just how much an intercollegiate award means; for to know that a student from one college surpassed the students from several other colleges is very...
...want subscribers, - a thousand, - if that number will come. Our club rates may be learned by glancing at the advertisement which appears on the outside page: Read and work." - Niagara Index...
...greatest value of a college course is felt in journalism proper, the editorial department. It is in this part of the work that the writing of themes and forensics will be found of material aid; for a large part of the editorials in the daily papers differ in no respect from the written work required from us. And when to the practice in writing we add that knowledge of European and United States history, of political economy, and of English literature, with which we may go from here so abundantly provided, no better foundation for a successful journalistic career...