Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is no need of speaking of the value of such a course to men intending to make of themselves professors. And, indeed, after what has been said, it is hardly necessary to speak of its value to that other class of graduates, the men of leisure. We have seen that a college teaches its students how to be humble and how to study. The added application to study, then, of a postgraduate course broadens very effectually a man's views and inculcates in him an aptitude for study and learning, of which his four years at college had given...
Freshman applicants for Bright and Bigelow scholarships are requested to send their names to the dean before Nov. 1. Statements as to circumstances need not be presented until...
...instructors of detaining their sections until the hour has fully expired. By this practice the unfortunate student in such courses is compelled to rush down innumerable flights of stairs and make his way along Oxford street and through the yard at a neck or nothing pace. It need hardly be said that such unnatural speed as this is harmful to the last degree, especially since it is apt to follow closely upon the exhaustion produced by the daily sprint race to the chapel doors. Yet the student must go into this "rush," or else be marked absent at the recitation...
...which is unique with them. They are well worthy of the students notice, and are certain to repay him in the artistic appreciation which they foster. The catalogues offer such a variety of subjects that every taste can be gratified. And the expense is so trifling that no one need hesitate to indulge his desire for them...
...light work during the term, making it up by over-work at examination time; and, finally those who do little or no work, the year through. The first class will evidently be benefited by the removal of examinations. They work to the full extent of their powers. They need no stimulus. The second class will be urged to do better work during the term, a most beneficial result. The third class would in no wise be effected by the rule...