Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Political Economy Department has arranged to make a reference room of U, 14 for the members of the different Political Economy courses. Several hundred volumes will be placed here and the room will be lighted during the winter afternoons and evenings, making the books even more available here than at the library, where, however, another set of reference books will be kept...
...Harvard to be ranged in a catalogue of their worthiness or unworthiness, no more should they be in their diligence or negligence. The new system of grades is but a promise of what we may expect in the future, - the entire abolition of credits. Students will then learn, even if they do not now know it, that they are working to gain knowledge and undergo training, and that artificial helps do not aid them, but only make the motive for their work an unworthy one. It is not the learning that is to avail us, but the spirit in which...
...Professor Schmoller, one of the most influential in the law faculty of the University of Berlin. Its publication has called forth a storm of controversy in the German newspapers. The fact that German students frequently spend the first half of their university course in idleness is not denied, even by those who oppose the views of the learned professor, and the chief argument of defence is that these years of idleness make up the only season of romance in the otherwise unbroken life of examinations and position-hunting to which German youths are doomed...
...other reason such a request would have met with its merited rebuke. But now that it is established, that each student shall be allowed to exercise his own discretion in attending prayers, does there not arise another question of equal interest to the student and perhaps of even more politic interest to the university, - the question whether the present plan will be successful? It is hardly matter for surprise that in the opinion of many the abolition of compulsory attendance upon prayers meant the discontinuance of the religious services themselves. In so far as the attendants upon prayers are concerned...
...which these ancient customs grew are still lying hidden in the college soil. Long ago, then, as we said, it used to be customary for the new-fledged sophomores to serve notices upon the budding freshmen, or otherwise violently communicate with them, to the effect that on this eventful evening free drinks should be standing ready for the august members of the sophomore class at which symposium the freshman hosts should prepare themselves for either use or entertainment. Of course these notices are accompanied with the usual threats in case of their refusal. It may occur to many...