Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About ten o'clock Saturday night, a student rooming in the south entry of Stoughton Hall noticed a strong smell of smoke and investigation showed that it came from room 11 occupied by E. S. Grifling and M. A. Kilvert, '89. An alarm was sounded from box 59, which brought several engines and a large crowd to the spot. The door was burst open and the floor was found to be in a blaze. It is probable that coals from the grate fell out upon the floor and burnt a hole through. The fire then crept along under the floor...
During the year, the students have formed a prosperous social club, the Emmanuel Club, for the discussion of ethics and philanthropy: its meetings have been addressed by Prof. Peabody, Rev. Edward Abbott, Rev. William Lawrence, and other well known men. The spirit of fellowship is rapidly growing stronger and the students are becoming more united in their social and literary work. In point of numbers the Society has been more prosperous than in any former year, having one hundred and three women in its classes last year against ninety the year previous. The special student department is considered a most...
...Here is a showing especially annoying in the absence of great dispute that Harvard affords the widest and most thorough opportunities for students in America. Fair minded people, I think, do not hesitate to accept the idea that Harvard has more educational advantages than Yale to offer, although they may question whether the student is as much pressed into accepting them. Her faculty, system of instruction, library, and tone of surrounding give her an unequalled and always increasing educational value, and no person would pass her by as insufficient in an academic aspect. That her numbers do not increase...
...attempts to write a sophomore theme. Many a sophomore will find his sympathies aroused for the struggling novice and will secretly admit that his own name might well be substituted in place of that of Brown. The article is admirable for its faithful description of a common experience in student life...
...Amherst Student and the "Lit." have commenced a crusade against compulsory church and chapel attendance...