Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...palpalbly unjust if it is so. There is often, it is true, too much school-boy oratory displayed when those who are ambitious for forensic honors first address the Union. But this is inevitable, and should be judged leniently. The work of the society merits the support of every student, while it seldom calls for his criticism...
...youngest student in the class of '90 is 15 years 2 1-2 months old, while the dignity of the class is upheld by two men who have obtained the age of 27 years 5 months. Below are the tables of the youngest and oldest men entering the classes...
...shorter papers and notes on topics of interest; (3) correspondence showing the movement of economic thought in the principal foreign countries; (4) a condensed bibliography of publications in political economy for the preceding quarter; and (5) such reprinted articles, documents, or statistical matter as may seem useful for the student of economic science...
...want to force anybody to hear tedious lectures; I've cut many a lecture myself, and know well enough that hard reading and industry in his own room are in the end more important, perhaps, to a student than hearing university courses. But I cannot persuade myself that the industry is to be found in the case of those who attend no lectures the first two or four semesters, and calculate from the very be ginning on the ability of a paid "coach" to cram them up for the examination. The number of these men, however, is very large - among...
...admit that the carrying out of such a change would not be easy. If it be deemed unworthy the dignity of a student to be thus daily controlled, let me merely call attention to our great military educational establishments. The officers in the war academy and in the artillery school, who are, on the average, much older than university students, who are in possession of offices and rank, and are many of them married men, must daily put up with having their attendance at course of instruction marked. - N. Y. Post...