Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hope of the crew is in the men from the lower classes who are rowing in the class crews. The six old men who are not rowing-including two '88 men, one '89 man, two law students and one medical student-will positively not row, although some of them were at one time expected. These six places will be hard to fill. The material at first looked promising, but just now it is considered a little disappointing for various reasons. It is gratifying, however, to know that the examination of the candidates by Dr. Sargent shows that there is strength...
...that the present year has been a very successful one with the Co-operative society. The society has grown to fill a large place in the University and it could not well be spared. That the society is steadily increasing in its power to satisfy the wants of the students is readily seen by the great advance in the amount of business transacted during the past year. Every increase makes farther advancement possible. We hope that next fall will see the society starting off with a much longer list of members. Aside from the pecuniary returns which will undoubtedly come...
...Academy. The major portion now go to Yale, Princeton and the smaller colleges. Yale receives most, and the rest are divided among Princeton, Amherst, Bowdoin, and Dartmouth. Why this change has come over the former feeding school of Harvard many fail to perceive. The explanation is that a student may fit himself without especial effort for Yale and the other colleges in three years, while a man to enter Harvard must remain another year, although there are a number of cases where men by dint of assiduous application have passed the necessary examinations at the end of the Middle year...
...established; and since then 137 acres of the Bussey property has been devoted to the culture of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, which adds greatly to the intrinsic value of this professorship. A library of three thousand books on subjects relating directly to character of the establishment gives a student ample opportunities for collateral reading. Judging from recent improvements, and past results of excellent work, the future of the Bussey Institution is certainly promising...
...attention of students is specially called to the directions of the English Composition card. Each student is held responsible for a knowledge of those directions, and is expected to follow them implicitly...