Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...place. I wish to point out what seems to be a defect in oral examinations in this college. That examinations of this kind are here very rare must be admitted, but even so all cause for complaint either on the part of the professor or the student should be avoided so far as it is possible...
...custom I think among most of the professors of this college to have their blue books, after an examination, looked over, if not marked by some competent third party. The student accordingly is brought to feel the justice of his marks, and even if he is not so, he has his blue book to refer...
...make this suggestion that among these questions of reform I might point out one at least in which the student need not be treated as the "forgotten...
...anothor column will be found an account of the organization of the American Dialect Society. It is desirable that the attention of students be called to the field of work offered to them by this society. Every student who has come here from another section of the country has noticed that the pronunciation, or the usage of some words differs from that to which he has been accustomed, also, that he meets words which are entirely new to him. Such differences, their origin and history, as well as local peculiarities and dialects, where peculiarities have developed into dialects, will...
...meeting at Professor Peabody's house next Wednesday evening, to which he invites all members of the University, ought to be attended by every student who feels an interest or a responsibility in helping to better the lives of those less fortunate than himself. We know that there are many men in college engaged in the study of social problems as well as in active charitable work. The appeal is made to these men, and especially to that large body of students who feel a genuine interest in such matters but who do not know exactly how to begin...