Word: regularly
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...faithful student to be prepared for the late mid-years? "Yes," say the Faculty; "the order of examinations was announced before Christmas, allowing plenty of time for reviewing." The answer to this statement is that, though the student had known the order of examinations in September, the regular and thorough performance of his daily duty, theses, and "intellectual conversation," leaves no opportunities for reviewing; and if the Christmas recess is not actually needed for rest, why continue a useless custom? As regards the preparation for recitations and examinations, it is the experience of every student, one may safely assert, that...
...This attempt to cram men like Strasburg geese has become a serious matter. More than a fixed amount of work, especially in history, cannot be done without neglect of other courses, and extra work, if forced upon those who take the elective, is performed at the expense of the regular and more important part of the year's study in that department. Thesis-writing compels neglect of the topics on the syllabus. The last examination has shown this to be not a theory, but a fact; and we hope that this is not the only instance where the instructor will...
...merely a review of work which has been performed from day to day. Such a review few will attempt to condemn. It is all very well to say that we should do our reviewing in the Christmas vacation or during the year, but it is impossible to perform faithfully regular work and review past work at once. As for vacation, the less said about that the better; vacation is given us presumably for rest, but from the extras forced upon us in more than one course, the vacation is partially, if not wholly, consumed in hard work...
...regular autocrat where I live. My room is heated by furnace; a bath-room is so handy that I rarely use it; I do not have to go to prayers; not a soul comes to see me; everything is kept in the best order; I can sing myself hoarse without disturbing any one; there is n't a proctor within hailing distance. I can sit here all day wrapped in that absolute quiet which is so essential to the production of the best lies. But I have society - plenty of it - when I feel sociable. I am sorry...
...Cambridge until Monday morning. A large proportion of those who thus go home every week do no real studying while they are absent from Cambridge. High scholarship is not to be won on such easy terms. The serious student should regard the days or weeks in term-time, when regular lectures, recitations, and laboratory work are intermitted, as time to be used for reading, writing, and converse with comrades in intellectual pursuits. The summer vacation is, in itself, a quarter of the year; to take vacation in addition during one-third of each of the other weeks in the year...