Word: work
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...amount of extra work required by instructors in some of the elective courses has become something to which the attention of the Faculty should be at once directed. In the elective pamphlet we are informed that the recitations in a certain course occupy three hours a week, and upon inquiry, we discover that the basis of the Faculty's calculations is that two hours are to be spent in the preparation of each recitation. In fact, however, it is far otherwise. Some instructors, under the mistaken idea that their particular course is the only thing worth paying any attention...
Sept. 25. - Grinds begin work...
...their friends on standing in the first ten, who are really, perhaps, not in the first twenty; and faithful students who were elected into the first eight of the &t;. B. K. have the mortification of knowing that their friends believe that they have somehow deteriorated in their work, and lost their position. In former years the list has had the names in the order of rank for the first three years, - the obviously natural and proper method. Such a list should at once be posted, in place of the present one, to put a stop to the elation...
...that our professor himself cannot understand them. Mandarin is, however, valuable for those who wish to enter the Chinese consular service of American and European governments, or the customs service of China itself. When any such students present themselves instruction will begin at the professor's house. Five hours' work a day - two with the instructor, and three outside - will be required, and the method of teaching is the same as that used by Professor Sauveur in teaching French. The instructor writes a character upon the blackboard, and the student pronounces it after him until it is firmly fixed. Great...
YESTERDAY afternoon a large crowd assembled on Jarvis Field to see the remarkable game of ball between the "Harvard Picked Nine" and the "Hod-lifters of Sever Hall." The features of the game were, the Borsair's sharp work as pitcher, the able support the Frauditor gave him behind the bat, and the fine fielding of Blister. We only have space to give a detailed account of the first inning. At precisely three o'clock the Borsair, gracefully poising himself on one toe, let fly the sphere. Moriarty, for the Hod-lifters, amid cries of the crowd...