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...points taken up in the lectures. The majority of the members of the elective have done faithful and careful work in the course, yet the highest mark for the half-years work was 88, while a large number ranged between 65 and 75. When this is compared with a soft course like the Mineralogical half of Natural History 4, where a man does nothing until a few hours before the examination, and easily attains a mark of 90 to 100, it will readily be seen that under the present system, marks are very poor indices of industry or ability...
...first place, great care should be taken not to make the course a "soft snap." It would have to be managed very shrewdly, so that there would be plenty of work somewhere, even if Russia took it into her head not to advance further into central Asia, if Germany suddenly decided not to extend her colonies, and if the whole Irish question suddenly ceased by Gladstone's yielding what is demanded of him. History pauses sometimes...
...alcohol had disappeared from the system in the subject of this experiment, the action of the heart was found to be much feebler than usual. A fatty heart is one which is over laid with masses of fat as the external muscles may be in a man who is soft, or out of condition, or one in which the fibres of the muscle itself have been broken down and replaced by fat; this is the true fatty degeneration. "Alcohol is, if not the most powerful, at any rate the most frequent cause of fatty degeneration" of the heart. The walls...
...present prevalence of what is called Harvard slang. If we were for a moment to analyze the character of Harvard conversation we would find that slang, if we may so term it, has become a constant quantity in all that we say. Professors "cut" and students "crib." We elect "soft" or "stiff" courses. We get a "whooper" or "plucked" in consequence. We "grind up for the semis" and by means of "guff" and "gall" we "skin through." This really is entertaining but hardly elevating. But where shall we stop? Shall it be when the instructor says "Doncherknow?" or when...
Jarvis Field was the scene of the contest; but old Jarvis had undergone a great transformation since the days of Eliot the First. A soft, closely cropped turf covered the broad field, and on either side were lofty grand stands, equalled in beauty of architecture only by the ancient amphitheatre of Pompey. Everything indicated that Harvard had recovered from that dread disease, impecunia...