Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instruction in the works of such authors as Spencer, Bunyan, Campbell, Congreve, Cowper, Defoe, DeQuincey, Disraeli, Fielding, Fletcher, Herrick, Johnson, "Junius," Keats, Landor, Lovelace, Macaulay, Marlowe, Miss Martineau, Mill, Pepys, Percy, Richardson, Sheridan, Smollett, Stanley, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thomson, Waller, - the list might be continued indefinitely. Every student of English literature should know something about every one of these authors. The only courses of instruction granted to us in which we can learn something about the general literature of England, (for I purposely omit all reference to American authors) are two unsatisfactory half-courses, in neither...
...each week absences were announced in Latin after the service. "Ter abfuisti," a student would be informed. To which he would answer, "Semel aegrotavi," "Bis invalui," or "Detentus ab amic s" (friends from home...
Dvorak, the talented Bohemian has evidently been a close student of Beethoven. In many places through the symphony there are passages which remind one of the great master, although the originality of the work is unquestioned. The first movement is fiery and modulatory. The prevailing tone of the second is much quieter, but it reveals a wonderful depth of earnest feeling. The scherzo is a very taking movement, an odd and pleasing effect being gained by the interruption of the rythm by syncopation. The finale is jovial in character, somewhat after the style of the finale of Beethoven's seventh...
...system of marking would most naturally be applied. He seems to think that the instructor would first assign marks according to the percentage scale, and then reduce them to the terms of the class system. Now, in in fact, whatever reference there is to percentage is merely for the student's convenience in estimating the value of his mark. The instructor would naturally consider, not whether a book deserved eighty-four or eighty-six, but whether it ought to be marked "good," or excellent." It is quite as likely that a book marked excellent would receive but eighty-four...
...first place student correspondents are more fond of argument than criticism. A single criticism of faculty or studies brings out a dozen defenders. The editorial department of a college paper must be critical at times, but, as the reflection of college sentiment, it is as often deprecatory of student shortcomings as of faculty haughtiness. That faculties dislike to be criticised is not true in the main, we think. No body of men like fault-finding; but good honest criticism, when well meant and of a "remedial" character must meet with respect anywhere...