Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the board of trustees at Wellesley College, Miss H. A. Shafer, M. A., was confirmed as president. Miss Shafer has temporarily filled the position of president since the retirement of Mrs. Alice E. Freeman-Parker. It was also stated officially that the average age of the Wellesley student was 20 years...
...final Sunday evening service of the year was conducted in the chapel last evening by Dr. Hale. The preacher completed the series of three sermons in which he formulated a student's code of morals. The theme of the discourse was: "Man's business in bringing in the Kingdom of God." Dr. Hale said that when tenderness and gentleness rule in the heart, charity and good deeds are sure to follow. In all our large cities there are many deserts of vice where any young adventurer in Christian work may find plenty to do. The music of the choir...
...sense, is not one of the two copies which may not be taken out put on the reserved shelf, and the copy now there allowed to circulate? Certainly, it seems ridiculous that two out of three copies should be useless, and that the third should be reserved. If a student wishes to make a study of Washington's speeches he must go to the Harvard Library, though all the rest of his materials-except this one book-are in his own library...
...celebration of the birth day of Ithaca as a city was the occasion of a scene resembling a Parisian affray between the students and townsmen. A number of Cornell men decided to blockade the street until a horse car driver should apologize for insulting a student. Accordingly, they stretched a rope across the street and piled boxes on the track faster than they could be removed. The mayor and several alderman appeared on the scene and tried unsuccessfully to quell the disturbance. Finally the "townies" obtained some hose, and fastening it to a fire plug, turned the water...
...Strongbow's Conquest of Ireland," Mr. Barnard has in the Contemporary Writers Series made a valuable addition to English history. The period embraced-from 1166 to 1186-is now so remote as to be unfamiliar, except to the thorough student of history. The present volume, therefore, aims to make attractive what other-wise would be neglected. The story is told with a quaintness befitting the times, and is illustrated by maps, genealogical table and pictures. [G. P. Putnam's Sons, publishers...