Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those who are conversant with the facts of the case, such talk is absurd. The charge of "all restraint being taken away" is wholly false. Each professor exercises full power over any student who cuts his course oftener than the instructor thinks advisable and such power extends even to expulsion from the course. It is not seldom taken advantage of. To say that the Board of Overseers have proved their wisdom is to reflect upon President Eliot, the one best fitted to judge of the matter...
...Princetonian, by its approval of a scheme of written examinations shows that it cannot conceive of the liberal spirit of a university, but would narrow down the life of an American student to that of the grammar-school boy. We would remind the Princetonian that our "new system of college government" is still young, that it must suffer attacks for some time(?) but we firmly believe that the day with come when the wisdom of the step will be admitted, and President Eliot's course acknowledged by all to be right...
...descriptions of the noted buildings and spots of interest in this celebrated city will, doubtless, be of the same entertaining and instructive nature which has marked the two previous lectures of the course. The views which will be shown are of so varied a character that no student at all interested in the art or history of ancient or modern Rome can afford to miss this lecture...
This, and much more too technical to mention, has been the work of the Musem the past year. It is unfortunate that the greater part is of too technical a nature to prove attractive to the average student...
...committee have taken special pains to ascertain the number of men who go with the teams to other colleges. They found that more than half of the students never leave Cambridge for this purpose, "and that on the average all absences from a college exercise from this cause amount to slightly more than one each year for each student...