Word: student
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...room was a fair type of the hideous abodes which our students make for themselves. The signs may disappear by Junior year; a few books which show the inmate's literary appreciation may begin to appear. But the imitation rugs, the walls covered with bad engravings, worse heliotypes, and trash of all sorts, the two sorts of chairs, - the ugly and the uncomfortable, - will remain as before. Harvard men ought soon to realize that a room to be student-like and comfortable need not be crowded, untidy, and cheap-looking, and that a few real ornaments are better than...
...will be a nobby student...
...teach non-sectarian theology, you must teach only the things which no sect rejects. Your only escape from this difficulty lies in throwing down the dogmas before the student, and bidding him choose for himself. We grant that some subjects may be taught in this way, but surely not theology. . . . Few religious men like to see theological teaching converted into an exercise for sharpening the wits, or would like to see young men exposed to the influence of professors who took half a dozen different views of the Trinity and the Atonement...
Professor. Me no catchee what you speak. Me markee bully. Me askee boy (student!) You likee rice? Boy say yes; he rushee no flunkee, me givee big mark. Boy say no; he deadee, no squirtee - me give little mark...
...Voted, That a penalty of 32 censure-marks shall be imposed upon any student who does not register himself between 9 A.M. and 1 P.M. on the first Thursday of the academic year; of 32 marks in addition if he does not so register himself on or before the first Friday; and of 32 marks in addition if he does not so register himself on or before the first Saturday...