Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...invitation has been extended to Harvard to send student delegates to conduct service on Sunday evening, Nov. 27, in Dockstader's Theatre, New York...
...opportunity in this direction. Flogging was in vogue then and was personally attended to by the president; it was not until 1735 that corporeal punishment began to go into disuse. "When flogging was resorted to, the occasion was always one of great solemnity." The president and fellows, tutors and students assembled in the library; the sentence was read in their presence and the offender made to kneel before them. The president then offered a prayer after which the "prison-keeper at Cambridge" attended to the performance of flogging. The exercises were closed with prayer. A student thus chastised was "suspended...
...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...
...power of the college was afterwards extended all over the country. When the licensing was thus transferred from the universities to a certain number of their graduates in London, and as the chances there for medical study were much better than anywhere else, the universities were deserted by students of medicine, and the number of men who aspired for a university degree became much smaller. This only in England. In Scotland and on the continent the connection between the universities and the medical schools has never been dissolved. In London, however, there arose the purely professional hospital schools...
...lacks entirely the grace of the original. Following this there is a well-written and interesting study on La Rochefoucauld. The quotations are chosen with a great deal of diserimination and accomplish their object of illustrating the points called up-a very rare thing, by the way, in student essays. "Mr. Hutton as a Critic" is too pedantic, and what good thoughts it contains are almost hidden by the insufficiency of the style. Some lines "To the Composite Photograph of the November Century" are very bright and introduce some neat plays on words. "La Corrida de Los Toros," a story...