Word: pupills
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Butler has addressed the legislature on the subject of the Massachusetts Agricultural College: "From the economy which can well be practised by the student at the Agricultural College, because of the cheapness of living, the absence of those inducements to extraordinary expenses by the pupil, which render a college course so burdensome to men of moderate means, the sons of such men will be enabled, either by their own exertions or the support of their parents, to obtain at a cost within their reach a good practical education, as good, in my judgment, as anywhere else, to fit them...
...Tonks, '83, a former pupil of Prof. Ko-Kun-Hua, has received an appointment as an attache to the American legation in Japan...
...appears that "hazing" is, after all, an exotic imported from the Parisian ateliers, where the students indulge in such ferocious tricks on new pupils that death has several times been the result. It was an occurrence of this kind that caused the atelier of Paul Delaroche to be closed when that master went to Italy, taking his pupil Gerome with him. The rising Russian painter, Basile Vereschagin, on entering the studio of Picot to learn the rudiments of his art, refused to be made the victim of the rough treatment to which it was proposed to subject him. This consisted...
...Frank F. Marshall, a former pupil in the Leipsic Conservatory, will give a piano recital in Chickering's rooms, with the assistance of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Allen and Mr. Wulf Fries, Monday, Nov. 27th, at 7.45 P.M. The tickets for the recital are one dollar, and are for sale at Schmidt's and Pruefer's and at Chickering...
...make use of a private tutor. His college does, indeed, provide him with a certain number of lectures, but the number is usually quite inadequate, and even if it were greater in several instances the teaching provided is not nearly so well calculated for the needs of the pupil as is the better-arranged teaching of the private tutor...