Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...argument of fire might have had some force during the days when gas was the sole means of illuminating public buildings, but since the introduction of electricity, which has now become superior to gas, the argument falls to the ground. As the case stands now, the only time a student can use the reference books in the library is in the morning, when his hours are generally taken up by recitatations, and in the afternoons when either laboratory work or the thousand and one things a person finds it more pleasant to do on a bright fall afternoon than pouring...
...recent visit of Professor Drummond to Harvard University has aroused a general religions interset. As an outcome, it has been decided to hold student conference meetings at intervals during the winter. The assemblies will be informal and devoted to a practical discussion of the problems of college life. The first meeting will occur in Holden Chapel next Tuesday evening and will be conducted by Rev. Phillips Brooks.- Post...
...tired of urging under-classmen to take some interest in the college, and to do something but loaf their leisure away; and most tired of pointing out that the interest of the college at large is the interest of every particular student...
This topic suggests further interesting and vital questions, of which we can mention only a few. What exercise can be recommended to the hard student? He has, perhaps, no knack for games; the weights and bars are to him as cheerful as a treadmill; he can not afford a horse, even if he knew how to ride. To him a walk is about all there is left. It is cruelty to compel him to do work which he loathes, and he is likely to get little encouragement to learn games that he does not know. On the other hand there...
...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...