Word: students
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...FACETIOUS student lately directed a dispenser of high-priced curs to the Dean's office, much to the amusement of our fun-loving Secretary, who received the inquiring visitor and his troupe of mongrels...
...paper, in fact, appears to have been constructed on the hypothesis that the entire time of the student has been devoted, like that of the tutor, to the contemplation of a single subject. In the years when the elective system is open to the student, such a supposition is not unwarrantable; but the studies of the Freshman year are arranged, if we mistake not, with the purpose of giving the scholar a taste of many branches of study, in order that he may choose his future course with more certainty...
...poured out a glass of brandy with melancholy dignity, handed it to me, filled his own glass, expectorated once more, and tossed it off. A few moments of silence followed. Then he addressed me again and asked me where I lived. I told him that I was a Harvard student...
...that has been going the rounds of the papers to the effect that 'a chap who spent $ 1,500 to graduate at Harvard is postmaster in Iowa at $ 24 per year' has been seen by the 'chap' himself, who writes from Polecat's Nemesis, Iowa, to the Magenta." - Alfred Student...
...great mistake to suppose that the student can use his knowledge of short-hand to advantage, and a greater one to think that it is necessary or even very desirable that he who intends to enter journalism should become a thorough student in phonetics. In the first place, phonography cannot be learned without hard study and continual practice, - a well-known fact, I presume, - and it is very seldom that a person becomes an accomplished phonographer in less than three years. But suppose the undergraduate can write short-hand, it is very difficult to get the necessary practice. In taking...