Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most interesting and active of the entire academic year. With tennis, boating, base-ball, lacrosse and cricket to occupy time, attention and money, to say nothing of the minor things that necessarily present themselves at the approach of annual examinations and the close of a college year, the student at Cambridge lives a very busy life from April to June. That during the present term his life is also to be specially interesting is not to be doubted. He watches the athletic teams with interest and hope, and if we may judge from their faithful work thus...
...Another student has lately died at Yale: this makes the sixth death there this collegiate year...
...with a view to making the punishment for "cribbing" more severe, and at the same time more just, both to the accused and to the students in general, that the "student jury," was proposed. This was the subject on which communication was invited. The discussion desired was on the remedies rather than on the evils existing at present...
...custom of substituting one hour examinations for the mid-year examination has already been commended as offering the students an opportunity to escape some part of the mid year work. But all who have taken one hour examinations have experienced the great difficulty, common to all, to do justice to the paper or to themselves in so short a time. Thus a student who is allowed to substitute two one hour examinations for the regular three hour examination, is in reality deprived of one hour's time while expected to cover the same work required in a three hour examination...
...another column is given a recent vote of the faculty, with regard to special students. That our university should give such facilities as it does for special study seems perfectly just, and is, in fact, one of the most admirable points in our system. But that this admission into the ranks of student-life here has not been properly restricted, and that in some cases it has been grossly abused, must have become clear to most of the men who take any interest in college matters. The action of the faculty in putting the work of specials under careful supervision...