Word: students
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...repetition of a truth is ever excusable, it certainly is when many of the surroundings have a tendency to bury it in forgetfulness or disregard, as they have in the ordinary life of the college student...
...dragged from warm beds to grace their lords' festivities, his eye sparkled and blazed with a youthful fire, and he seemed a boy again. With what glee did he tell of Harvard's one fire-engine, first at all fires (when perfectly convenient), drawn by a crowd of yelling students, and whose cold streams, when fires were less frequent and the student mind needed gentle relaxation, were often turned upon the windows of obnoxious tutors...
...various departments, it is clear and thorough in the advice and information it furnishes. Of course, much of the book would not be new or valuable to one who enjoys collegiate study and instruction, but there are many hints in it which would prove useful to any student...
...supervising the construction of buildings, aqueducts, reservoirs, and roadways; in fitting and furnishing greenhouses, laboratories, and lecture-rooms, and in laying out grounds." This institution recently received an endowment of $100,000. But notwithstanding the improvements made and being made, it has not succeeded in inducing a single student to offer himself for the three years' course in agriculture. This fact seems to substantiate a prevailing opinion that the demand for such instruction in this country is not very great...
...different stores of Cambridge supply the student with almost every minor necessary of his life, but in one point they are deficient: we want in Harvard Square or thereabouts a first-class, clean barber-shop, with experienced workmen. That such an establishment would yield satisfactory profit to the owner there can be no doubt, while to us it would be a long-needed convenience...