Word: hardness
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...hard it sometimes is to adapt one's self to sudden changes is shown by the following conversation which took place in one of the English electives...
...same time, if you do not talk about studying, it is not probable that they will trouble themselves enough about you to discover that you are working hard; and as long as you are not caught at it, the more work you do, the better. There is a rather popular theory at college, that all exertion ought to come under the same head. Study and gravel-digging are both dubbed "work," and work of any sort is thought "ungentlemanly," - a horrid word, by the way, which you ought never to use. A man who is always ready for everything, however...
...which it has so long been justly famous. Life here will lack the brilliancy that has distinguished it in times gone by, and will degenerate into one "demmed horrid grind." We confess that the aspect of the picture seems to us threatening in the extreme. But let us struggle hard against this advancing tide of labor...
...present captain is forced to spend most of his time in urging men to join who ought to have volunteered long since, and be now working for old Harvard with might and main. The captain is out daily with a scratch crew, good, bad, and indifferent, and is working hard with such stuff as he can get. The president of the H. U. B. C. and others have told us what a tremendous enthusiasm there is among us; but it is about time that the students should know how the matter stands, and should see to it themselves that...
...specialty of English and Saxon studies, who had elected English 4 for next year. He has taken all the other courses in the English department, and was anxious to take this one, but felt it imprudent to risk his degree on one examination in a course so traditionally hard, and he has therefore been obliged to give it up. His case is not exceptional; others might be mentioned, but one is enough to illustrate the evil working of the system, and to show that it is altogether hostile to true scholarship...