Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blind to the past and future. He is a conservative and a progressive man. He holds fast to all the good of the past while reaching forward into future. Progress is safe only when thus made; and this, I take it, is the characteristic of a Yale student...
...hospitability for new ideas has characterized the Yale men of the past, and I commend the Yale spirit to you in this regard. Yield yourself to this influence of the University. Be earnest, honest and fair-minded students. Manliness and the manly sense of duty is allied to this. It is the second element of the Yale student. The rules of the university life are justified largely on this ground; they are the expression of manly living. The gentleman of leisure, even of elegant leisure, is not so far as my observation extends, the manly...
...question returns to us, then, What ought a Yale student of to-day to be? I answer, just what the Yale men of the past have been. He should be a man whose prime quality only and foundation of character is manliness, the sense of duty so all controlling that he is reacy for duty's call whenever and wherever it comes to him. That manly sense of obligation to God and men which puts work before pleasure and inspires the soul to meet with a spirit of a conqueror what is distasteful...
Regulations, ??? 23: "The blank books required for an examination are to be placed in the hands of the instructor not later than the last exercise in the course before the examination. No student is permitted to take any books or papers in the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever...
...other by the Rev. Josiah Strong, D.D., and both were very interesting and instructive. The other course is under the auspices of the Phi Beta Kappa society, the first lecture of which will be given next Wednesday evening by President Dwight, who will talk on "What a Yale Student should be." Later on, Prof. Hadley will lecture on "Congressional Regulation of Railroads." Professor Wheeler and Ex-Gov. D. H. Chamberlain have also agreed to deliver lectures in this course, as have Senators Hawley and Allison, unless they be prevented by pressure of their public business...