Word: even
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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THAT target for the arrows of the aggrieved student, the marking system, (pardon me for mentioning it!) that contradictory, illogical, unjust method of classifying men, seems likely to assume an importance more than local; for it is in full operation even in our lower schools, where its effects are noticeably injurious. Work at high pressure, nervous energy and its result, nervous exhaustion, are evils put by our modern Solomons on the shoulders of young people. That cases of nervous disease occur even among young children, as a direct effect of our present school system, is known to every physician. People...
...Oxford-Cambridge race takes place to-morrow at 7.45 A.M. The last English papers state that the betting, which had been 10 to 7 in favor of the latter, is now even, owing to the changes in the Cambridge crew...
...comparison), I write on every subject, no matter how commonplace it may be. Thus, one of my most popular sonnets is addressed to "My Dog, on Losing his Collar," while a lyrical poem, "To a Hole in my Shoe," has been ranked very high by competent critics, and was even mistaken by some for a posthumous production of the great "Lake" bard...
...wish to indulge in any unnecessary complaints on the subject of "marks"; but we cannot refrain from calling attention to the case of one of the Latin instructors, who, even at this remote point of time from the "Semis," has acknowledged that he has not yet begun to correct the examination-books, and does not know when he will begin, - implying that he is by no means troubled by the delay. Perhaps this unjust treatment might be endurable but for the fact that many of his men make their course in regard to second-year honors dependent, in great measure...
...black eyes and sore heads; and, strange to relate, those who had thrown these down had Phi. B. K. clearly stamped on their features. Of the multitude that crowded into the field there were scores of Annex members, Professors, Base-ballists, Oarsmen, and many others whom I had never even suspected of envy...