Word: student
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...spite of the familiar picture of the moral dangers which environ the student, there is no place so safe as a good college during the critical passage from boyhood to manhood. The security of the college commonwealth is largely due to its exuberant activity. Its public opinion, though easily led astray, is still high in the main. Its scholarly tastes and habits, its eager friendships and quick hatreds, its keen debates, its frank discussions of character, and of deep political and religious questions, - all are safeguards against sloth, vulgarity, and depravity. Its society, and not less its solitudes, are full...
SECT. 8. To help the Assistant Treasurer collect subscriptions, the Executive Committee may appoint a student, to whom they shall pay not exceeding five (5) cents on a dollar of the money collected...
...that of the English system of University diplomas for successful candidates - would do some good certainly, but how great in America is questionable. That some change is needed is clear. The Universities and Colleges have been steadily raising the standard of admission, and increased exertion is required of the student who wishes to go through college at all, and far more to get through with any distinction or practical benefit...
...tree. The great cartoon of Kaulbach, almost impressive at first sight, appears, after but a brief examination, too mechanical for the work of a really imaginative artist; the equality of the pains expended on every bit of drapery and lock of hair suggests the attempt of a South Kensington student rather than that of a genuine artist, and the whole spirit is theatrical in its most vulgar sense. Every figure has taken its pose as in a tableau to be gazed at, and the want of unity of idea in the positions or faces is felt more painfully the longer...
...only in danger of being utterly ruined, but even now have suffered severely from dust and want of care. Once a year these trophies of palmier regattas are brought to light for a few hours, and then returned to be lost for a year, save to some inquisitive student who may stumble upon them in their exile...