Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pitcher, last year a student in this college, now in the college of Physicians and Surgeons at New York, was in Cambridge last Sunday...
...strictly speaking, a startling one, yet of late the fact has been forced upon the attention of the writer in a new and sometimes vigorous way, namely, by the seating, or rather un-seating arrangements in many of the larger recitation and lecture rooms. Now, as every student is well aware from long experience, recitation rooms with us are little nitches cut out of an ideal paradise. This being the case, especially with those in Massachusetts and Harvard Hall, the question arises, why should the seats be like smaller nitches cut out of an ideal - something else. Consistency is known...
...these courses regular recitations are held, and no examinations are given; the men meet the instructor at certain times merely to show him their work and to obtain his advice as to its further pursuance. The student is relieved from all hack-work, and is afforded an opportunity of pursuing his special topic with the maximum freedom...
Some people will read a popular book, such as "The Student Life at Harvard," and then imagine that all young men here follow the course of its hero. Others will read the life of some famous graduate, and from this will be led to believe that all students, in their thirst for knowledge, overwork themselves, and pass through such a course of discipline and self denial...
...them such attention as they consider necessary for the proper performance, later in life, of the functions of citizenship. Nearly all, it may be said, have an appreciation of the responsibilities which are to rest upon them as educated men. Perhaps there is no necessity for urging the Harvard student to turn his course of study into these channels. It may be that no sharper spur is needed to drive him on to the performance of a duty which must not be shirked. Yet we may learn a sombre lesson from the clipping from the Boston Globe which we print...