Word: student
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will be seen in another part of the paper, it depends only on the student whether Alumni Hall shall be used as a refectory next year...
PROFESSOR E. S. MORSE, of Salem, delivered the annual lecture before the Harvard Natural History Society, on Thursday evening. The subject of his entertaining essay, the "Evolution of Organic Beings," was handled in a masterly way. To the critical student his evidence and details were of great interest, while to the less scientific his graphic illustrations of birds, reptiles, and mollusks awakened pleasant associations of their earliest ancestors. Professor Morse is a wonderful artist, and the resemblance between an embryo robin and turtle, as drawn on the blackboard, called forth loud applause. The attendance was large, and the only drawback...
WITH the present issue we conclude the series of French letters by V. J. R. for this year, hoping next term to be able to give our readers a continuation of the series about superior instruction, and student life in Paris. We felt at first somewhat diffident about publishing serially what would be much more effective in a single article of a larger publication; but, as far as we can judge, the experiment has thus far proved satisfactory to our readers. Certain it is that those who keep their old Magentas have in the numbers of the past year...
Some may say that it is not well for a student in college to attempt to gather a library, because, aside from the time it takes, he has not sufficiently mature judgment to select the books which he will want in after life. Although in some cases he may buy those which he will not afterwards wish to keep, yet by exercising his judgment he strengthens it, and forms the habit of noticing books, - a habit which will induce him to pay more attention to his library and to literature generally than among the cares of after life he otherwise...
...ordinary examination a day or two previous. The examinations amount to so little as showing the real knowledge of those examined, that, although a good deal of time is uselessly spent in preparation for them, it would be very unfair to give them any importance in determining a student's position. They are interesting as affording examples of the purest cramming. Perhaps the object in giving them was to present the evils of the practice in as striking a light as possible. If so, the plan has been a success...