Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...horrible death of E. F. Dillon, a student of Dartmouth, in the Vermont Central Railroad accident is deeply to be deplored. Apart from losing a student by so shocking a death, Dartmouth lost in him the man on whom they counted as pitcher in the nine...
...rules in regard to absence from college exercises at Williams, went into effect yesterday. Practically there will be 20 cuts allowed, and a student will be permitted to spend one Sunday in each term, out of town...
...course, in whatever matter the examination paper is prepared, we all know the subjects well enough to meet the demands upon our intelligence (and our imagination as well sometimes); but every student has a sympathy with certain parts of his work, and takes more interest in those parts than in others. He would perfer always to dilate upon these favorite topics. Under the old system it was as Cicero would say "bull-luck" whether he had a chance or not. Under the new regime he can show himself to better advantage...
...journal. Although the writer of the review takes occasion to criticise mildly some minor points in the articles of the journal, the lively and trustworthy treatment of the great practical subjects, such as the account of the "Southwestern Strike" and the Knights of Labor, received due praise. Students of political economy, and especially college students, are fortunate in possessing a magazine which will give clear, reliable and concise discussions of the great economical questions. Amid the confused mass of economic literature of to-day, when superficial writers are so abundant, when a flood of pamphlets, often as obscene in language...
...represent even a minimum of culture. In this sense all degrees were and always will be more or less indefinite. But let us not mix up two things that are so easily kept separate, and which ought to be so kept. All experience proves that now and then a student only wastes time by trying to learn a foreign language, and that he may nevertheless attain a fair degree of scholarship in other departments. Some students who make little progress in the dead languages do fairly well with the living. The mind of one learner may be most effectively trained...