Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...destruction of a lambrequin, occurred in one of the college rooms and was with great difficulty prevented from doing more serious damage. It is truly remarkable that so few fires take place in the college precincts, but their absence ought not to cause carelessness on the part of the students. Every room is more or less exposed to danger from the chance dropping of a lighted match, and every student should keep in mind the comparative lack of proper means for extinguishing a fire even though it might be very slight. The Harvard fire department, which many years ago effectually...
Yesterday's Times stated that "John Hayes, the ex-catcher of the Brooklyn nine, has been engaged by a Yale student, at $20 per weak, as an instructor in the art of self-defence." -News...
...questions were allowed relative to the examination paper. This step taken by Professor Palmer deserves attention. It recognizes a principle that ought to receive general recognition in all courses. A police surveillance in examinations is not only in poor taste, but is productive of positive evil. Every student who wishes to crib feels justified in outwitting a proctor. The very presence of a spy serves as an incentive to underhanded tricks. When a student is placed on his honor, and and when betrayal of that trust, means dishonor and disrepute among his fellows, he is under stronger guard than when...
...held possession of the smoking compartments and played whist; the Glee Club practised its songs, numbers of Pierian men joining and giving an impromptu character to the rehearsal; and an odor of smoke fought with the atmosphere for supremacy - and won. About thirty miles this side of Portland a student resident, Mr. F. H. Whipple, '88, introduced to the first car-load the Mayor of that city, who gave encouraging reports of what might be expected. Anxious inquiries as to the quality of the water, an important matter in Maine, brought forth a reassuring answer, and the Mayor left with...
...eminently qualified to speak of the subject; as by President White, of Cornell, before the National Educational Association in 1874. But the plan, I fear, will never be successfully carried out before another thing is done. What we need as yet is not so much the university as the student. There is still almost wholly wanting among us that higher ambition in our young men which is necessary in order that a university may live and thrive. We need the ambition that would go beyond the studies required for practical purposes, that would go beyond the bread-and-butter studies...