Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Pach's room photographer will be in Cambridge until Wednesday evening. Appointments should be made at once.Thomas A. Amery, of Cincinnati, a pupil of St. Paul's School of Concord, N. H., was fatally injured Saturday while coasting...
Near the close of a recitation: Professor-"Are there any questions any one wishes to ask?" Pupil-(not prepared and anxious.) "What time is it, please...
...this department. With downright frankness he said one day in the recitation room to the professor who was pursuing him with questions, "I don't know; you know I don't pretend to know anything about mathematics." Quickly, but good naturally, the professor replied, turning the laugh on the pupil, "Sumner! mathematics! mathematics! Don't you know the difference? This is not mathematics, this is physics...
Prince Napoleon's eldest son has been for some time a pupil at Cheltenhain College, in England. His studies have, however, been suddenly cut short as he has just been summoned back to France in consequence of his having been drawn in the conscription...
...that, in giving these persons a thorough examination, the college renders a gratuitous service, partly to them, and partly to the schools from which they come; and it will continue freely to render this service until the labor which these examinations impose upon it becomes unreasonably heavy. Every ambitious pupil in the graduating class of a school or academy desires, for his own credit, to pass all the examinations which his comrades are passing, and the more reputable the examinations the stronger will be this desire. The college recognizes the force of these motives, and has thus far made...