Word: students
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...greet the Chief Magistrate of our country, not as a stranger, but as a former student of the University, who returns to the fair scene of his youthful studies bringing sheaves of honor with him. We salute in him our beloved country, the beautiful, sweet mistress of us all. In her service Harvard has never counted any sacrifice too costly. Founded when Charles I. was King of England, this institution shared to the full the poverty and hardships in which the nation was cradled. When President Washington visited the College the whole value of the land, buildings, collections, and securities...
These and many other customs of which the book treats all tend to show that the student of the fourth century had about as jolly a time as does the present seeker after knowledge...
...although it is dying out here at Harvard, is still practised in many other colleges. At first badgered to try his mettle, the Freshman, if very fresh, was subjected to mere vulgar banter; but if he showed any quickness at repartee, he was tried by all the resources of student wit, and finally subjected to the pump...
...those days a lecturer struck a sleepy student on the head; times have changed since then, and now the Latin instructor politely says...
Athens was always more popular with students than was Rome, where the college officers were required to look after the behavior of students in society, to keep them from a too frequent attendance at the theatre or at wine parties. The authorities of Rome publicly whipped a student offending in any of those points; but the city of Athens furnished the theatre tickets...