Word: working
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Dame Scholastic, with which it is waging bitter war on the question of a college paper's right to publish official communications. The Yale News appears to be seriously alarmed at the indications of a "brace" by Harvard in athletic matters. "When Harvard braces it means that there is work ahead. We cannot afford to lose what we have won." The Sun that visits Cornell daily is disposed to be a little obscured by clouds, we fear; and the Era does not continue in brotherly love . . . It is a pleasure to praise the Exonian, one of the most modest...
...before. The Yale News states that Harvard is straining every nerve for victory in the spring. This is true so far as it concerns the men who are now training for the "'Varsity" and Nine, but it is not true of those outside of them. When our men are working hard to retrieve Harvard's defeats of last season, their training is certainly made less monotonous and more earnest and attractive if they feel that the eyes of all the University are upon them. As it is at present, the 'Varsity row every day, rain or shine, and the Nine...
...course adopted by many instructors of giving theses to be written outside of the regular work has been, and deserves to be, the cause of much complaint on the part of the students. When a man has elaborate theses to write, as in Political Economy 3 and History 5, of a hundred pages or so in length, one of two things must happen: either he must neglect his regular work and write them during term time, or he must devote his Christmas recess to the task. Either of these courses seems equally bad, and we cannot believe that the amount...
...promoters of the system of Honorable Mention, which was applied for the first time to the class of '80, were undoubtedly very well satisfied with the way in which it worked. On the whole, the system is a good one, and does encourage more systematic work; but there are several points in which last year's trial suggests modification of it. Thus, it seems hardly right that Honorable Mention in a modern language which may have been acquired abroad, should be considered a ground for a degree cum laude. Again, in the Greek courses, it is difficult...
...instruction given, or love for the subject. Is our literature, then, so deficient in value and interest? Is the ability to write - not Greek, but English - of so little importance? Students of Saxon and Old English meet with scant encouragement. Honorable Mention is a meagre reward for faithful work in seven English courses. It is but a vague term, at best; and certainly the addition, English, does not suggest any knowledge, however limited, of Anglo-Saxon. If Graduate Course 7, and possibly 8 or 9, could be added to the list, and another course in Literature given, there might...