Word: student
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...number of the Illustrated Magazine opens with some characteristic sentences by Dean Briggs on the President-Elect. Addressed in the first place to a group of students in English 5, these remarks on the election of Mr. Lowell form, in their mingling of grace, frankness, and humor, perhaps the happiest comment so far made on the event which is of so much interest to us all. This event will remain in the minds of most readers of the second article, that of Mr. S. A. Mellor on the Oxford Undergraduate. Everybody is now meditating advice to the new President, formulating...
Professor Lowell was given an ovation at the beginning of his lecture in Government 1 yesterday, and made a short speech in which he emphasized the vital necessity of a sympathetic understanding between the President and the Faculty on the one hand and the student body on the other...
...When I was a student here in College I had very definite opinions as to how some things should be conducted, which I thought were well worth listening to, though they never were listened to. I still believe those opinions were worth something. Now I hope you will feel free to make your opinions known for I believe in the undergraduate view of things. The interest of the student body is of the greatest importance to me. And I hope you will feel perfect confidence in me for we must work together in building up the noblest institution...
...undergraduates, the election of Mr. Lowell is of particular significance. No man in the Faculty of recent years has been more actively interested and has arrived at a fuller appreciation of certain problems of the student body. He has believed in going straight to the heart of things, of determining from the student himself what the actual situation is and planning a solution accordingly. It is to be expected he will pursue this policy. His especial interest during the past year, that of effecting the best method of rewarding high scholarship, in which he has done much constructive work...
...expect. The article gives clearly and persuasively an account of the tutorial method used at Princeton, its faults as well as its virtues, and leaves an impression, strengthened by the editorial, that Harvard would do very well to have something of the sort here, which would give the student a sympathetic friend, not too old, to make his work more a part of his life. "The Purple Patch," set effectively during a water-fete at Marseilles, is a story of no little grim strength relieved by an eerie humor which is very effective. The twisted old grandfather might have stepped...