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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 worker can profitably labor, and that demanded of the man engaged in physical labor. The reason is this: nature has so constructed man that his physical powers of endurance greatly exceed his mental endurance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VACATION SCHOOLS. | 12/12/1889 | See Source »

...form and at left tackle. Right end is open, and McClintock, '91, and Townsend, '91, are trying for the position. McClintock is the fastest runner on the team but is slow in dropping on the ball. Townsend is fast, gets down field well and is an earnest worker. Wurtemberg, M. S., will play quarterback as last year. He is very cool, but is not passing well. Graves, '91, will probably play full back. The candidates for halfback are S. N. Morrison, '92, who played half on the '92 team; Harvey, who played during a half of the Princeton game last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Eleven. | 10/22/1889 | See Source »

...brings forcibly to light the practical abuses of the mixed system. His statement that a thesis will infallibly require "a withdrawal for solid days together from all other work" will be heartily endorsed by all students; and his appeal for a system which shall hamper less the earnes worker, will be heartily seconded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Monthly for June. | 6/14/1889 | See Source »

...Wadsworth Longfellow, and Jared Sparks; and it also points out the difference which the closer communication between Cambridge and Boston has effected. "From My Attic Window" is an ambitious attempt at description by "A Harvard Junior." The literary portion of the magazine is completed by an essay on "A Worker in Stone," two stories, "Seth Grinnell," and "'Mid Musty Manuscripts," and several bits of verse. There are letters from the captains of the Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell crews, accompanied by some statistics, supporting the view that athletics do not have a bad effect upon studies. The Eclectic and Critical Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Collegian. | 1/5/1889 | See Source »

...Carter, '88 S., has no bad faults, is probably the best oar in the boat, and a conscientious worker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Crew. | 6/20/1888 | See Source »

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