Word: students
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seems a little singular that in a college like this, where an elective system prevails, and the course of study is consequently left to a great extent to be selected by each student for himself, there is no provision for any instruction for the purpose of enabling us to make an intelligent choice. In order to make such a choice it is particularly important to have clear ideas of the manner in which all knowledge is divided or classified, and of the value and applications of the different branches, together with the general character of each, and their mutual relations...
...comparatively, of what is to be known, - of the omne scibile, - yet we have reached a stage at which it is desirable for us to take a broad, general view of the whole field of knowledge. This is necessary that we may have some understanding of the work of students in other departments than those in which it holds in the grand whole, as well as to enable us to choose our own studies. Besides, it is just as important, especially in an education professing to be, par excellence, liberal, to obtain a comprehensive view of the whole...
...Tufts Collegian is a trifle heavy, but remarkably sensible in its general tone. Its article on the Study of Political Science is particularly good. The editorial statement that they have yet to receive their first contribution from a student of the college, however, suggests the idea that the Tufts Collegians may not be as rational as their representative...
...attractions of Amherst College as enumerated in the Student are such as to make us tremble for the future of our own Alma Mater. The new College Church, "just finished at a cost of $70,000," is a "beautiful building with a chime of bells in the tower," and is "designed exclusively for Sabbath worship." The town, though small, possesses some of the finest religious edifices in the State, and the Mt. Holyoke Ladies' Seminary, as well as another "College for Ladies, is near at hand. "Board can be obtained for $3.50 a week, or a little more"; and that...
...Union nails her color to the mast, we tremble before the awful probability that things will be mixed. There is little danger of a Harvard student's being taken for a Union man, except by those who were "raised" in the immediate vicinity of - we believe it is Schenectady? - but the Union students may expect to be often taken for Cantabs, next summer, and must cultivate their modesty for the occasion...