Word: students
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...carrying out in some form, when we think what an addition it is to the attractions of a room, if one of the window-panes has on it initials with an ancient date, or if there is an egg or piece of parchment handed down by successive occupants. A student hears, by chance, that his room has, years ago, belonged to an Adams, an Emerson, or a Sumner, and immediately he feels a bond of union, slight though it be, with those famous men, and a desire to know more of them. If anything could be devised which would possess...
...would be far from affecting the carping spirit so popular in most papers, and especially college journals. The complaints were laid before us, seemed well grounded, and so we have mentioned them. Anything of this kind must be mere thoughtlessness, as no instructor would voluntarily endanger a student's "passing...
Again, Union claimed the color in 1860. Before what tribunal? Where was it widely displayed? The color was claimed only by being worn by some of the students of Union. Now, who will deny the probability that a handkerchief or ribbon of the hue which is now called magenta was worn at some time by a student during the first two hundred and twenty years of Harvard's existence! Indeed, tradition reports that old John Harvard himself sported a deep crimson kerchief. Where, then, was Union...
...Amherst Student on Col. T. W. Higginson and Harvard...
Would that we could put in print the peculiar and expressive "Ah," with eyebrow accompaniment, with which the average Harvard man would acknowledge the above compliment. The Student also says: "There are more students in college from Brooklyn, than from any other one place, except Amherst." This is easily explained. Beecher went to Amherst...