Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Three hour blue books, 32 cents a dozen; one hour, 20 cents. 500 sheets punched paper for student covers...
...great pity that sand has been sprinkled on this walks in the yard, thus destroying the skating and sliding which is so dear to "ye Harvard student...
...Harvard, the first university in the land, with a library shrouded in Egyptian darkness in the hours when men's brains are liable to be most active, is the disgusted cry we have heard about us for months. Every earnest student feels the painful and unwarranted deeds that is put to his reading hours by the shrill cry, "library closed" at sunset every...
...have the same weight in the examinations. Greek, Latin and Mathematics will continue to have, as they now have, much greater weight than any of the rest. The examinations will be marked according to the new college standard of marks. Another new thing is the provision that allows a student to take his preliminaries and final during the same year. Although this new system of entrance examinations goes into force this year, any one desiring to enter on the old conditions (from having taken already the preliminaries or from some such reason) may do so, for 1887 only by making...
...attention is paid to the drawing in engineering 5, mathematics 5, formerly 7 and mechanics 1. Therefore anybody who wants to take mechanical drawing can only do so by attending one of the above named courses. As these courses are rather difficult and are not strictly mechanical drawing the student is at a loss what to do. It is not practice in manipulating drawing instruments that he wants, a thing he gets in engineering 1, 5 and 7, but practice in drawing machines, parts of engine bridges, etc., and this cannot be got in any course at present. The abolition...