Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examination period has begun once more, and, in offering the compliments of the person to our readers, we take occasion to remind them that even if they have concluded their work for any particular day there is a chance that the other men in the building have not, and that noisy embullitions of joy are not a source of equal pleasure to their neighbors and to themselves...
...brief, the project met no favor. Now, to me this little incident was a revelation of the low ebb to which the college tone had sunk as regards effective moral opinion. I thought I could perceive that what made this scheme unpromising was not so much the conviction that even in such clubs men would cheat, but the feeling that if any one should cheat, he would have the club at his mercy. The other members would then have to expel him unanimously; or, failing of unanimity, some would have to resign and so break up the club rather than...
There has been one great change here since President Eliot was a student. He never thought of asking a professor about anything, not even about his subject. Now there is much co-operation between the instructors and students, which is fostered by the departmental clubs and reading rooms. The greatest difficulty in the way of a proper understanding between students and faculty is lack of information. There is much printed matter, furnished gratuitously, which is not read. For instance, a student said to the president that the "organization of Memorial was fundamentally vicious, as the steward had an interest...
...verse this number of the Advocate contains four pieces. "The Oak" is well-conceived; is very good in form. The writer has a peculiar bent toward this kind of simile and he handles it very well. Of even a more serious character than this short moral reflection is "A Song of Life and Death," which is a rather fine parable in verse. "Love's Arrow" and "The Rain" hardly deserve much comment...
University says it will never advocate the dropping of Latin and Greek, nor even their continuance as optional studies at our colleges...