Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bonus of $50 is offered to any man who will rent 3 Hastings. This will make the cost of the room for the rest of the year only $200. The original rent...
...winter entertainments by the students will soon begin. Next Friday the second annual public meeting of the Barnard Literary Association will be held in Hamilton Hall. An oration, an essay, and a debate on the question of coeducation, will compose the exercises. The great event of the college year will be on February 4, when the inauguration of Mr. Sech Low as president of the college will take place in the Metropolitan Opera House...
There will be an hour examination in N. H. 4 on Friday December 20. The examination will be held in Sever and will determine the rank for the first half year. Examination will be held in History 12 next week, and in History 11 Friday, December...
...literary man labors. The agriculturist, the artisan and the professional man in general who is not engaged in teaching the youth, are accustomed to continuous toil for at least ten hours daily six days in the week. With the instructor it is quite different; about one third of the year is spent in rest or in ways not directly connected with instruction, and besides, when employed, his day is shorter than other laborers. With this as a basis, an argument is made which goes to prove the reasonableness of the great difference in the number of hours that the brain...
...about one sixth that of the laboring man with only as much brain as may guide his movements. Inasmuch, therefore, as intellectual labor his been found more wearying than that required of the ordinary man, the conclusion has been drawn that not more than nine months of the year should be devoted to school work, and it seems to be the tendency everywhere to increase rather than diminish the periods devoted to refreshment. These respites from intellectual labor are not unaccompanied by evil tendencies, and, in fact, the mind needs some time in which to be restored to its normal...