Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brown student has recently given to the college $650 to beautify and improve the athletic grounds...
President McCosh, of Princeton, has a curious habit, when disturbed in any way, of chewing the knuckle of his thumb. On one occasion when he had been lecturing on the relations of good and evil of the world, he was asked by some inquisitive divinity student to explain the origin of evil. Replied the president, with a strong Doric accent: - "Well, ye have asked me a vera deeficult question. All the feelosophers of antiquity have tried their hand at it. Sookrates tried it and failed; Plato did no better. Descarites, Spinoza and Leibnitz were obliged to confess...
...societies called "Nations." There are about a round dozen of these Nations, taking their names from the provinces or cities which they represent; the Gota Nation, from Gothenburg; Upland's Nation, Nerike's and Gefle, from provinces of the same names, and so on. The mere fact of a student belonging to a certain city or province entitles him, upon presenting credentials, to an "enlistment" into one of these Nations...
...work consists chiefly of lectures, with two examinations a year. The regular course in any department is four years, at the end of which the student receives the degree of Doctor (of Philology, Law, Medicine or Science), together with a license to pursue his profession...
...pride of every student is the University Phalanx, which is a military organization of the students. It is a well disciplined regiment of young men from 20 to 30 years of age, and it is the pet of the army. The Phalanx is not under arms constantly; some years, as in '82 and '83, it does no drilling of any importance, but whenever there is any prospect of war, as in the present crisis in the East, it resumes its active discipline; and the university has just suspended most of the lectures temporarily, in order to allow the Phalanx...