Word: student
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THIS is the season when a student's lady friends remind him that they are tending tables at a fair and have season-tickets for sale...
...COLLEGE student, in rendering to his father an account of his term expenses, inserted, "To charity, thirty dollars." His father wrote back: "I fear charity covers a multitude of sins...
...informed that the Faculty contemplate substituting for the roll call of students in each section, a method of registration by which each student is expected to report three times each week to the Proctor of his building, or some other authority in case he does not room in a Proctor's building; this provision is made to prevent non-residence of students. We should be glad to see real voluntaries given to the College, which of course means the abolition of a meaningless roll-call, but cannot judge of the system of registration until further details are made public...
...sole editor of an alleged Harvard paper, we feel that we owe it to those of our readers who may be unacquainted with his position in college to expose him in his true colors. Mr. King is not, in any proper sense of the word, a Harvard student. He has come here, as he himself has admitted in conversation, as a business enterprise, because the name of Harvard has a certain pecuniary value connected with it. He has occupied most of his time since he has been here, not in his studies, but in compiling and publishing guide-books, - very...
...motive is? Do not the numerous guide-books of Harvard, Cambridge, Boston, and Cincinnati speak for themselves? Their object was professedly, and properly enough, a financial speculation, and they met with as much success as they deserved. So long as their editor confined himself to such means, no Harvard student had any right to complain of his object. But when he sets himself up as a representative of the University, can we not question his right to do so? Heretofore young men have come to Harvard to study and to fit themselves for future usefulness, and the College has appreciated...