Word: men
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...steady streams of starving men to right and left did pour...
...sums that Freshmen volunteer to pay for the gilded sheets, the amount received from advertisers must be considerable. Let no one, however, be so far tempted by this as to forget that he is bound in honesty to render a fair equivalent for their money to the business men of Boston and Cambridge. Those who prepared the Advertiser's Tabular View at the beginning of each half-year were able, no doubt, to influence the advertisers without deception. They said that the students had to consult these tables two or three times a day for at least a week after...
...recitations universally voluntary, the privilege should be limited to those who show a special interest in study; these being determined by their rank either in all studies or in some department. This scheme, while free from such objections as Dr. McCosh's, would also offer a powerful inducement to men in the early part of their course to work hard. To us, however, it appears to have several faults...
...spent over Greek plays or on the Merovingian dynasty. While no one can doubt the propriety of doing the latter, still it is a pertinent question to ask, wherein have such studies any superiority over writing as a means of discipline. Moreover, it is a recognized fact that the men most ready to write are those who are also most ready to study. In this case there need be no fear of their neglecting their tasks in order to attend to the duty of writing, - a duty that can scarcely be called more pleasurable. If those, however, are induced...
There is also another purpose which a college paper serves. It is the custom to praise the habit of gathering in a friend's room around the fire, and conversing on the various subjects suggested by life here. Men from all quarters of the country, it is said, come together, and the ideas a man obtains from conversation are worth more to him than all the contents of his text-books. But the truth is, that men in different sets rarely meet to join in any long conversation. A college paper, however, furnishes a place in which communications, from...