Word: times
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...twilight and the night-time...
...less favorable to us than to others, although our petitions were often not granted. If answers to our questions were somewhat brief, or there was any lack of fervor in our welcome, it was attributed to the attention necessarily due to matters of importance decided there, thus leaving no time for the little civilities always expected from public officials. Arguments would have been useless to prove that we received less attention, enjoyed fewer privileges, or were regarded even with less respect than our older brothers. Conviction on that point was impossible. Fortunately that ever-present delusion of a blissful state...
...before, it was considered hardly right to make any one return for a recitation, though the preparation of this took up but a short time of the vacation, is it just, now, to impose upon us an examination in preparation for which, if we hope to pass at all fairly, we shall be obliged to spend nearly the whole of the two days allowed? For even if it is argued that we should be prepared at all times for examination, every one knows that not even the most persistent "dig" - and perhaps he least of all - would wish...
...student has to obtain "one half of the total maximum mark for the whole course from the time of his admission" to entitle him to the degree of A. B. This is a rather sudden and unexpected rise, and with such an extended "margin" as fifty per cent and the mark-et so variable we need not be astonished if "suspensions" are of frequent occurrence...
...privileges granted others. It is not sufficient that the offending one reforms, he must even reach a standard of excellence, higher than that which is required of his associates, and this is hardly probable. We do not believe that the greater one's task is the less time it will take to perform it, or in giving to an overworked man more work in order to rest...