Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Constant complaints are being made that the laboratories are not kept open during the time of the mid-year examinations. It does not seem to be necessary that this department should be closed for almost three weeks because recitations are not in progress. Many men finish their examinations from one to ten days before recitations begin again. To them it would be of great advantage if they could spend some of this spare time in the laboratory. Working out experiments in chemistry is slow work at the best, and any extra time which could be thus devoted to it would...
...lived from 1763 to 1855, and first appeared as an author in the same year with Burns, namely, 1786. His poetry was of the unimpassioned, meditative character. Chambers says that "it was man of taste and letters, as a patron of artists and authors, and as the friend of almost every illustrious man that has graced our annals for the last half century or more, that Mr. Rogers chiefly engaged the public at tention." His colleges works have been published in various forms...
...painful evidence of a fear of passing beyond the bounds, and uttering some sentiment which, really they feel they dare not express. In the literary productions can be seen the lack of general culture. Everything appears in the same stereotyped, orthodox form, indicating a narrow curriculum, which we can almost name in detail. In the personals and locals it is again apparent that, outside of the recitation room the college mind is fed on the most petty details. All this surely declaring how much more the different institutions resemble schools than colleges...
...reported that a certain college has decided to make its students pay for any desks they may hereafter disfigure by cutting. This puts a summary end in one institution to what has been hitherto an almost universal custom. Somehow, these rude signs seem to be links between the students of different generations, and every one has felt a certain inherent right to carve his initials wherever he pleased, even though from motives of discretion he did it surreptitiously. Few indeed have been the books written on school life, in which the grey-beard did not point...
...course. This is, to be sure, in the first instance, only a personal belief drawn from personal experience; but I will not omit to say that I have had abundant opportunity to discuss the subject with friends connected with the physical and mathematical sciences, and I have found them almost without exception firm in the same conviction." The main point is very emphatically touched upon by the university faculty in their report of 1869. "In regard to the natural sciences, the most mutable of our chemists and physicists, as well as the representatives of the other departments, agree that...