Word: student
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Professor passes on, mentally commending the student for his persistent efforts to study without interruption.- Athenaeum...
...beauties by his side, when, looking up pensively into his face, she said with tears in her eyes, "Oh! no one loves me, Mr. R." "Some one does," he replied. "Yes?" said the lady, pressing his arm ever so lightly. "Yes, Miss Lizzie," continued the wretch, "God loves you." - Student...
...purse-proud regime has been reduced, the tandem-driving lords and snobs are unknown. The "Town and Gown" row is a thing of the past, so is that unappeasable thirst for beer by which the youth of that time seemed to have been impelled. The writer states that a student who should anywhere be seen tipsy would lose caste entirely among his fellows; but this is a very hard statement to swallow. If true, things have vastly improved in England over what they used...
...stereotyped than it really is. Among the works studied are those of Gibbon, Hume, Voltaire, Mill, Darwin, Huxley, and Tyndall. In Merton Library old books still remain chained to the wall, but as a visitor was looking at them he noticed that the last two books issued to a student were works of the most sweeping radical of the time...
...number of students is two thousand. Their rooms are considerably larger as a rule than those at Harvard or Yale, and having much fewer books in them appear more like sitting-rooms than studies. In a view that is given of the interior of a student's room the freedom from overcrowding, either with furniture or smaller objects, is especially noticeable...