Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...debating courses here, especially where the topics chose have reference to modern legislation, political economy, literature, and other questions of the day. The library now takes but one copy of each of these magazines, and allows them to be kept out for one week. It has often happened that students are thus deprived of the use of these magazines for several weeks at a time, and changes in topics have not infrequently been necessary simply because a student could not get at the information he wanted. Therefore we suggest that two copies of each magazine, certainly of the more important...
...thoroughly equipped industrial school has just been built within two minutes' walk of Memorial on Broadway, above Felton Hall. The land, building, and necessary appliances were furnished to the City of Cambridge through the generosity of Mr. Frederick Ringe, who was formerly a resident of Cambridge, and, moreover, a student at Harvard years ago. Mr. Rindge's affection for his native place has manifested itself in a very bountiful manner. He has given the city, ground for a new town hall, a splendid library building, an English high school building (not yet erected, to cost about...
...stock of student Note Covers is ready in the stationery department...
...marked change has taken place this year in what might be called the societies for instruction,-the Historical Society, Conference Francaise, Deutscher Verein, etc. Last year it was the instructors and professors who exercised control; this year everything is given up to the student members. Such a change is only another result of our elective system. It is the adding of another responsibility to those the undergraduates now sustain. Harvard University assumes that a student is a responsible being and acts accordingly. The year is not far enough advanced to test thoroughly this new experiment; but the trial gives promise...
...faculty of Dartmouth have just adopted a new system of rules in regard to the government of the students. This system is modeled to a great extent after the one now in use at Harvard, but the details have not yet been fully worked out. The principal change is in regard to the manner of making out the reports of the students. At present, each student is given his rank and position in the class according to a marking system. After this term. however, the classes will be divided into groups according to rank...