Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wild, delirious heaven of ice-cream and salad, of lovely young men and ecstatic round dances, of elm-shaded avenues and star lit walks, and softly breathing music and indescribable leave-takings." To her sister who begins to feel the growing soberness of things it is simply a period of a few moments of instructive conversation with some pleasant and learned professor, with, perhaps, a shade of innocent corner flirtation with lively proctors and studious tutors. How changed from that first class day when nearly a quarter of a millenium ago the first class of Harvard graduated and took their...
Newnham Hall, now Newnham College at Cambridge, England, an instistution for the higher education of women, opened in 1871 with five students, and its numbers have increased, during a period of fourteen years, to about one hundred. The "Annex" opened in 1879 with more than twenty students, and now, at the end of six years, it has more than fifty...
...modicum of study required by the college regulations. The art of study is truly a great one, and an art that ought to be learned early in life, before, if possible, a man reaches college. To those who find it difficult to learn at so late a period, system is the only complete guide and aid. Study must be systematized, and thus half of its terror vanishes, and what was formerly a labor becomes a pleasure insomuch as the mind has not time to weary itself by needlessly plodding over lessons again and again...
...more or less care, according to the natural taste of the student for the subjects. Some men, good in every other branch, make wretched work of mathematics, and only gain a semi-mastery of the principles by hours of study. These men have a hard time during the cramming period, and, what is more, they receive little sympathy from their more fortunate classmates. The classics are frequently worked up by groups of men in the same class. Sometimes a "pony boy" is hired, who, with his translation in hand, drones out his task, while his hearers, with eyes glued upon...
...most puzzling questions of student life is the question of summer reading. No period of the year is so little devoted to purely intellectual pursuits as the period from June to October. A hard year's work at college is hardly fitted to inspire a man with a profound idea of his intellectual duty to himself during the warm months. But a zealous student finds during his collegiate term that he has but little time to devote to collateral reading, and is only allowed by pressure of circumstances to gather a list of those books which he deems...