Word: work
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Senior year a part of the Commencement programme was given up last year. This change is on every account to be regretted. It makes many Seniors who do not aspire to a high general average careless about their success in any particular course. Still worse, it leaves all faithful work in any particular course unrewarded; and the new system of Honorable Mention will not remedy this evil in most cases, - in such courses, for instance, as are not preceded by enough hours in the same branch to make up the required eight. And, even in cases where Honorable Mention...
...importance of having good captains cannot be overestimated, and it would be well if those who are to fill the responsible positions next year carefully avail themselves of the experience of those who have been successful heretofore. There is material enough left in college, but we need hard work and skilful guidance to mould it into proper form...
...gave him then my written work...
...will leave for New London on the 19th, and this is the last opportunity which we shall have of reminding them that it is worth while to try to improve on the time of last year. Mr. Watson has been coaching them during the past two weeks, and his work has had a noticeable effect; but they have still much hard work to do before they can attain the perfect form of the crew of '78. Their present bad form is owing to no lack of conscientious effort, but to the fact that they were unable to be upon...
...students and be their adviser; a man who could advise the crews in training, and watch that no man overstepped the limits of his physical powers; a man who could tell the round-shouldered, hollow-chested, crooked-legged, weak-backed, how to remedy their defects, and put them at work on suitable apparatus in the gymnasium; a man who could tell the boating-man, the bicyclist, the base-ball player, what he most needed and what he should avoid; and, with all this, a man who by his character would win the confidence as well as the respect...