Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The number of students who pass a portion of the loug vacation at Cambridge is increasing yearly. At first the only students who devoted the summer months to study at Harvard were those who elected the summer courses in chemistry, either for the purpose of doing up their work for...
The specialist at the Universities finds himself a marked man, with a weaf of hay upon his horns; he is looked upon with mingled feelings of suspicion and pity. That there can be any knowledge outside of the curriculum of the University, or if there is, that it is of...
Among all the difficulties that the young aspirant for a college course has to encounter-and the number is by no means a small one-none can be said to give him more trouble and hard labor than that of studying understandingly and well amid the thousand and one pleasures...
One of the most puzzling questions of student life is the question of summer reading. No period of the year is so little devoted to purely intellectual pursuits as the period from June to October. A hard year's work at college is hardly fitted to inspire a man with...
"The faculty, with the president and treasurer, are the only persons in the governing boards who are connected professionally with the college. The overseers-and the corporation too-devote to its interests only such time as they can spare from other pursuits. Of course they necessarily receive all their information...