Word: friend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...graduates and take their positions in the world to exert an influence in drawing students to the college. No influence is so quick to turn the decision of one who is as yet undecided what college to attend, as the personal influence or report of some neighbor or friend who is already in attendance at any college. It is ture that the choice of college for many is practically settled when the choice of a preparatory school is made. But of late years this state of affairs has been changing rapidly. No longer as of old, can it be said...
...intelligence of the many. A national university could not diffuse education, it could only impart to a very few a degree of learning which most men are not ambitious to possess, and which is powerless to make them better citizens or more upright men." Our Vermont friend is also of the opinion that a national university would be a fruitful source of political corruption, and that the management would be fettered by congressional experiments and investigations. "It means that the revolution of parties would be succeeded by the revolution of faculties." Although it will probably occur to our readers that...
...province of Vosges, France. His family belonged to what is known as the magistrate class, and had been officially connected with the government for generations. He was sent to Paris to educate himself for the law, where he studied with Genin, the celebrated philologist who was a personal friend of his family. While with him, he assisted in writing several articles in the "Nouvelle Biographic General." Later he held a position in the pension department which he left to come to America. He came to New York in 1857 and for four years was instructor in Fezandie's school...
...dinner to the Yale freshman nine will be given at the Quincy House, Boston, Saturday evening, June 9, at 8 P. M. The price of the dinner will be four dollars apiece, and those attending will be allowed to bring one friend each, without extra charge...
...school, as out of it, the American breakfast of fish, beefsteak, hot cakes, or what not, is unknown. The boys breakfast in small rooms, twenty or twenty-five together, each eating such breakfast as his means, his tastes, his skill in marketing, or the liberality of a wealthier friend may afford him. The school is divided into classes or 'forms.' The sixth-form boys breakfast in their own rooms, as they do afterwards when they enter the universities. . . . The boys of each house dine together in a common hall; no soup; roast beef or mutton, bread and dessert of 'sweets...