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...necessary extra time. Nor do the students alone realize this difficulty. At that December discussion two members of the faculty raised the question whether, since it is assumed that the Senior is already doing all the work he can handle, he can be expected to undertake the additional task of reviewing the work of four years and filling in the gaps between the concentration courses which he has taken...
...indeed, even as it availeth not to rail at the unseeing, so it bespeaketh a mind of little spaciousness in him who will not bestir himself in the task of enlightenment. If the discourse of the learned professor interesteth not the common student it is not the latter who is alogether at fault. Perchance the lecture is indeed stupid, or perchance the student has not ever been awakened to the significance of learning...
...growing attack which the Freshmen were uncovering. Coach Claflin's men evidently were not expecting to find stiff opposition and seemed to fall back to their old fault of not getting underway at the start. But when the Freshman attack was well developed, they found it no easy task to score, and it was ten minutes before they were able to successfully break up the yearling defence as Martin recovered the puck from a scrimmage before the Freshman goal and drove it home. When the University finally got their stride they proved to be a little too much...
...olden days, it was said, there had been an unknown spirit on that mountain, and every morning, just at sunrise, he world toll out a clangor on his bell. Once people had believed that he held court had vanished into dust, the bell-ringer had been faithful to his task; until one day after a last faint peal, the sound had died away and the bell was never heard again...
...unknown spirit on that mountain, and every morning, just at sunrise, he would toll out a clangor on his bell. Once, people had believed that he held court at that hour, but even after the court had vanished into dust, the bell-ringer had been faithful to his task; until one day after a last faint peal, the sound had died away and the bell was never heard again...