Word: students
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...college student should be required to be so much less fickle than the rest of the world. The sum of the matter is this, that there are very few newly introduced amusements that last in any community, whether it be a college or a city; and the college is justly liable to change its tastes more frequently than the city, because of the fact that one quarter of its members change every year. Men are surprised because there were only twenty-eight entries this year to the Athletic Sports compared with sixty-three, which was the number last fall...
...Student (anticipating the regular joke). Please tell me what verb is omitted in this passage, "Di majorum umbris tenuem et sine pondere terram...
...after several like offences, the student refused to make confession thereof, he was to be "suspended from his seniority, and the privilege thereof at meales and for a week's time or more, according to the nature of his offence"; and continued persistency in this course rendered him liable to expulsion...
...Each student . . . . shall for the first offence, being absent more than once or comeing tardy more then twice in a week space be punished a penny a time for once absent or twice tardy...
...BOOKS OF REFERENCE. - Information will be given as to the best grammars, dictionaries, and books of reference in general with which a student of the French language should be acquainted. The works themselves will be shown and tested in the class. Occasionally an hour will be devoted to the study of some difficult text, when those who wish to do so may take an active part in the lesson, using the books to look up embarrassing points, and thus learn to clear up for themselves not only difficulties of language but such as arise from insufficient knowledge of French usages...