Word: student
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Elective System itself, but in the necessity of choosing without sufficient information of the object of different courses and the manner in which they are to be treated; and, in the absence of any explanation by the College on this point, it would be well if the students who are acquainted with the courses would give a short criticism of such as are not likely to be understood by others, so that those who choose them may do so with the advantage of having their experience to guide them. The difficulty of which we speak becomes more apparent after...
Where that brave student sank...
...Amherst Student is good, as it always is. The following stanza, taken from "An Ode" dedicated and presented to Daniel Pratt, on occasion of his recent visit to Amherst, shows that the students have profited by the teachings of that great philosopher...
...Hesperian Student for February is a unique production; the poetry is better than in many college papers, but rather broad for Eastern readers, and in an aimless poem we have the startling announcement of thoughts that are "sitting on the eyelids" of a student, "bending o'er the classic page"; and these same thoughts later "rustle in his hair." In descriptive language the paper is very rich; as a specimen, we have "uproarous silence." It is hardly fair to be severe on a new issue, but it is better for a paper to be dull, and free from shameful typographical...
...year or two ago it occurred to the fertile mind of some student that an honest penny, not to say several honest dollars, might be turned by inducing the shopkeepers of Boston and Cambridge to pay a certain sum to him to print on a sheet of pasteboard their advertisements with the tabular view of the College exercises. These sheets should be distributed to the men in the several dormitories, and thus many an unsuspecting youth would be inveigled into buying the wares of the merchants. The plan was no sooner formed than executed; the students were not entrapped...