Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...minds the sad cases of last year, and once more suggests the danger to which our most ambitious students are liable. The present absurd manner of marking discourages many students from doing hard work; but to those who are dependent on scholarships, and are conscientious enough to elect difficult courses, it offers strong temptation. To such students the lesson of this new calamity cannot be too strongly emphasized...
...compete for scholarships to whom they are no more of a necessity than to others who are practically excluded. Protests against the present usage have been made in past years, but without success. Owing to the conditions under which nearly all the scholarships have been left, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to throw them open to free competition. All that can be done is to influence future founders of scholarships, and this point must be kept in view by those who write upon the subject...
...though such a reform cannot be accomplished for many years to come, the Faculty might give some relief, or at least boldly face the evil. It is well known throughout the college that the two deaths of last year were the result of reckless overwork; and it is difficult to reconcile with this fact the statement in the President's last Report, which reads, "In no one of the cases could the fatal disease be attributed to any exposure or overexertion incident to student life or to residence in Cambridge...
...complaint I am supported by a majority of students, and it seems to us quite an unfair thing for an instructor to give out a paper with as much work on it as is generally to be found in any two hour paper. Although it is quite a difficult thing for him to judge exactly how long his paper shall be, yet he should bear in mind that there are many students who cannot write one half as rapidly as others, and who, also, lacking conciseness in expressing themselves, are unable to write the whole paper in an hour, though...
...Advocate's attack on the Executive Committee seems a little ill-timed, when we reflect that the action of that committee was indorsed by a boating meeting, and when their reasons for "procrastination" are known by most men in college. It does not seem so difficult to apprehend why the Executive Committee should hesitate to bind the College to a race with Cornell, at present our most doughty adversary, when they foresaw as possible what has now happened. We are at a loss to know to whom the term "boating representatives" applies; if by it are meant the crew...