Word: student
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...student seeking amusement after his sumptuous dinner at Memorial Hall, the Rifle Corps, which appears on Holmes Field, in its new uniform, every Monday evening, offers a spectacle at once pleasing and edifying. Some persons, who used to drill in the Boston School Regiment when they were little boys, are inclined to make invidious comparisons, but of course such comparisons are entirely out of place. It has not been decided yet when the Corps will "go into camp," but it is generally understood that Chelsea is the spot selected...
...hours of elective studies throughout the year. We have been allowed, up to this time, to take as many hours each half-year as we wished, provided that the sum-total for the two half-years equalled twenty-four hours; a privilege which was very valuable to many faithful students. To applicants for honors, particularly, the liberty to take the larger amount of work during the first half-year was very important, as it gave them more time in the spring for the special work which is required for examinations for honors. Again, it greatly lightens the labors...
...compel Seniors to observe the rule which forbids any conflict of hours in the choice of electives seems to be in direct opposition to the principles of voluntary recitation; for surely, if a student is qualified to decide whether he will attend recitations, he is also qualified to decide whether he can profitably elect courses which occasionally conflict. No matter how great the care taken in arranging the Tabular View, it often happens that two valuable courses have one hour a week, or, in the case of Fine Arts 2 and English 6, one hour a fortnight, in common...
...column, complaining of the peculiar "marking system" adopted in German 7, meets with our unqualified approval. We wish it to be distinctly understood, however, that it is not intended to find fault with the instructor in that elective, as a teacher. In that capacity he is regarded by the students as competent and faithful, and his duties are performed in the most conscientious manner. But this does not prevent our condemnation of his system of marking, which we regard as absolutely wrong. Solid substantial instruction is the main object in taking any elective, and marks, whether high or low, cannot...
...folly and evils of reckless overwork have within the past few weeks been brought forcibly to the notice of every student. We need not comment upon the sadness of the cases in question, but the lesson they contain cannot be too strongly emphasized. This is the season when hard work is most fatiguing, and yet most necessary. An ambitious student, trusting to the approaching vacation for rest and recovery, is tempted to strain every nerve, and, before he is hardly conscious of his danger, he may do himself irreparable injury. Even the strongest constitution and the most faithful exercise will...