Word: student
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Here at once we see the result of special attention to our language. No superficial student could have written this sentence, and we even doubt whether those who have not had the advantage of special instruction in English at Neophogen College will fully understand it. We humbly acknowledge that we do not grasp the meaning in the words, "the whirlpool of commotion in the files of the nation"; but when the editors go on to say of the College Pen: "From its incipiency we have regarded it as one of the most important features of the school," we are able...
...work has not been in vain, for we find one of the articles, written by a student, thus mentioned: "The 'Address', by the accomplished young Haynie, is beautifully written, and abounds in rhetorical figures." The address referred to was delivered to the "Philetaeren Society," on the occasion of a May-day celebration, and opens...
Amherst. - Only contributors are eligible to the editorial board of the Student...
...Testament, "And So-and-so bequeaths it unto What's-his-name,' and "What's-his-name bequeaths it unto Thing-a-my," and so they go on bequeathing, until the legacy comes to an end with me. At first this transmittendum had a price. In '32 a Divinity student, who had purchased the mat for a dollar and a half, parted with it, "at a great sacrifice, and because he wanted it to keep with the room," for, two dollars. It was not till eight years afterwards that it ceased to have any mercenary connections, and became a regular...
OPINIONS differ as to the merits of the late novel, Student Life at Harvard; but probably no one will dispute that the delineation given in one place of Sam Wentworth is applicable to almost every Harvard man: "Here he was, - a man in stature, but a boy in everything else, with not even a thought as to the ways and means of life, and a horizon that did not reach beyond Class Day." The biography of a student can usually be summed up about as follows: In early life he decided to go to college; goes to the academy...