Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish that every student in the university might have heard President Hyde's sermon in Appleton Chapel last evening, not so much for the point of view taken by the speaker, as for the nobility and earnestness of his thought. It was grand sermon, benefiting all who listened...
...Every student is required to follow implicitly the directions with regard to paper, folding, endorsing, etc., given on the English Composition card...
Requlations, S 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 into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever...
President Eliot has said that the work of a Harvard student ought to begin promptly at nine o'clock in the morning. Since compulsory prayers were abolished, however, the tendency has become marked among a large number of students to delay the commencement of the work of the day until long after nine. The habit of tardiness has taken a strong hold especially upon those who have lectures during the first hour and has proved such a source of annoyance to several of the professors as to cause them to adopt the practice of locking the doors of the lecture...
...have heard many complaints in regard to this exclusion of tardy students from the lecture room, but we believe that the action of the professors is perfectly justifiable. Something surely was needed to check the habit which was growing so troublesome to professors and students alike and probably no better means could have been found than that which notify the student that if he desires the benefit of a lecturer, he must be courteous enough to be present when the lecture begins. The rule has succeeded when it has been tried. We are glad that so serious an evil...