Word: cloistering
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...Social life at Princeton, or at any college town, can be taken to mean little, except the social life of the students. Of what is usually known as society, Princeton has almost nothing. Life here is semi-monastic; society is that of one's fellows of the cloister; and of social events it can only be said that they are somewhat more frequent than angels' visits...
...change which tends to relieve it of its over-plus of work cannot but be regarded as a change for the better. When the mid-year examinations have dragged through their, to some of us, rather aimless existence, the startled student finds that the shadow of the cloister-like course of study which he must embrace to survive the annuals is close upon him. In past years, this realization of the coming storm has induced many to seek recuperation in a voluntary recess. But now we will be allowed a longer respite before the trying and struggling days...
...every one who knows what a grind is, least of all the grind himself. If an intermittent cloister-like life of study is what distinguishes the grind, of what use is his life? It is a preparation for greater things coming after, of course. But some grinds do not seem to have any after, except after midnight and high marks. Archimedes was the very Bayard of grinds. But he ground himself into the grave. I remember once hearing that there are grinds at New Haven who are regularly summoned to the Yale "U. 5" for taking too many courses...
...year examination, can be looked at in two very widely differing ways. Some consider it as a breathing spell in the steady grind of college work, and enjoy themselves to the utmost. Others look upon it as a special opportunity, reserved by the hand of Providence, for a cloister like course of study, and are only too eager to improve the opportunity. We sincerely hope that both of these classes will find the vacation they anticipate, one, pleasant, the other, useful...
...Wolf, the greatest Homeric scholar of his time. The school owns many miles of mountain forests and to induce the students to exercise the authorities have laid out long walks through them. Regular instruction in riding, shooting, swimming, fencing, and dancing is compulsory. In an old cloister are two bowling alleys and in another building are billiard and reading rooms. There is also a splendid library containing many very old and valuable manuscripts. A custom which would be very attractive to a Harvard man is that there is no marking system. At the end of the term each student...