Word: student
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ingenious student in Chemistry 1, when the filter which he was using would not drain fast enough to suit him, remedied the defect by punching a hole in the filter...
...Student. He says a brute is an imperfect...
...Student. Man is a perfect brute...
...recently proposed changes in the mid-year examinations are objectionable on many grounds. It seems to us that an examination lasting three hours is the most perfect test of the student's proficiency: any shorter time would give too much advantage to the merely rapid writer; and the necessarily smaller number of questions on each paper would make success more a matter of chance than it now is, and would obviously be a less fair and thorough test of a half-year's work. These faults appear in their most exaggerated form in one-hour examinations; and, if the proposed...
...year. No, indeed; George's motto was: Never tell a lie - where there is a probability of being found out. Strange to say, George did not pass all his time in love-making. In the books love-making seems to be the chief occupation of a student. It was strange, but still it was true, that George thought girls almost as bad bores as examinations...