Word: man
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...learned man...
...staid professor man...
...training is certainly made less monotonous and more earnest and attractive if they feel that the eyes of all the University are upon them. As it is at present, the 'Varsity row every day, rain or shine, and the Nine practise daily in the Gymnasium, and yet not a man takes enough interest to watch and give them an encouraging word. Last year after the race, members of the 'Varsity were heard to complain of this very treatment. Harvard will have to work very hard for success next year, and we hope that every man will consider it his duty...
...course adopted by many instructors of giving theses to be written outside of the regular work has been, and deserves to be, the cause of much complaint on the part of the students. When a man has elaborate theses to write, as in Political Economy 3 and History 5, of a hundred pages or so in length, one of two things must happen: either he must neglect his regular work and write them during term time, or he must devote his Christmas recess to the task. Either of these courses seems equally bad, and we cannot believe that the amount...
...clear course on the Thames, at the first trial in 1878, was an unprecedented achievement, implying an amount of preliminary labor never before given to any boat-race arrangements in the United States; and that the running down of the press boat on that occasion (by the only man afloat who refused to obey the managers' regulations) failed to result in loss of life was little less than a miracle. Equally astonishing was the good luck of a year later, when the squall of wind forced the impatient fleet of sailboats to swoop down in the wake of the long...