Word: students
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...advantage in passing the examination in French. Those who do not wish to pursue the study further will be thereby wholly relieved; those who are desirous of electing French can do so only if they have passed. In French, the higher the elective, the pleasanter it is for the student. There is such a gradation from the elementary class, above which are five electives, each a year in advance of the other, that any one who desires to acquire some proficiency will aim to enter, from the first, in as high a section as possible...
...loafer, and whether he had a chum. I mean to go to the Library some day and learn all about J. C. W. and his college career. I have not time to tell of the long, late, lovely grinds I had here afterwards when I became a great student, nor of the quiet games at chess with the proctor on Saturday nights; for the shadows are growing long on the graceful curves of my time-warped floor, and the crowd is hurrying to evening Commons. I am afraid I have but feebly expressed my regard for my old room...
ANOTHER chapter of College history will soon be closed, and the needed rest of the long summer vacation will give both teachers and students an opportunity to review with calm judgment the results attained during these nine months of toil. The spirit of advance and improvement which has taken possession of the University has already borne good fruit; and the result of the still more important changes which another year is to bring with it is awaited with some anxiety,. but greater hope. The general tone of the College was never better. The whole tendency is one of increasing liberality...
PIRATICAL STUDENT (who has just received a Public for cutting prayers). O that I had the Board of Overseers in my grasp! Would n't I make them walk the plank...
...been tried and have failed could not, for obvious reasons, be described here; but now their number, like Brummel's neckties, must be increased by one more "failure." The various systems that have been followed at different times have many supporters, and it is strange to notice that a student's estimation of them changes as regularly as he passes from a lower class in college to a higher. The favorite plan with the Seniors is that which allows the men to secure rooms by classes, the Seniors having first choice, the Juniors next, and so on; this plan shares...