Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The communication of the self-styled, thoroughly American student, merits a reply through your columns. "The anglomaniac tendencies in American Universities" that have shown themselves "in peculiar dress and in strangely distorted pronunciation," in my opinion richly deserve condemnation. A man may not be less patriotic when he elects to ape our English cousins in dress and mode of speech, though he certainly puts himself in the ranks of those who would introduce a ridiculed but yet dangerous element in our society life. He is unpatriotic when he voices the sentiment that "Americans have grown wise...
...Harvard Lampoon loses none of its originality. As is often the case, its illustrations are superior to its literature. Particularly good is the representation of a Harvard student of 1900 sitting calmly unmoved and coldly indifferent while a Memorial Hall waiter is pouring soup down the back of his lordship. - Brunonian...
...thoroughly American student I wish to protest against this narrowing down of our models. I cannot see that I am less patriotic because, finding that the dress of Englishmen is more becoming, and their speech more musical than our own, I try to copy after them in these respects. If the students of Johns Hopkins found that their meeting could be best conducted under the rules of the English "Commons," they were justified in using its rules. When we Americans have grown wise and prosperous by adopting the best ideas and customs of other nations, it is not strange that...
...change in the time of the mid-year examinations is highly advantageous to the students. The second half-year is always more occupied than the first, and any change which tends to relieve it of its over-plus of work cannot but be regarded as a change for the better. When the mid-year examinations have dragged through their, to some of us, rather aimless existence, the startled student finds that the shadow of the cloister-like course of study which he must embrace to survive the annuals is close upon him. In past years, this realization of the coming...
Throughout his life, Prof. Tyndall has been an advocate of scientific study for the simple love of truth, and, in this and many other respects, has constantly furnished an example of what the ideal student should be. The desire for personal advancement, or acquisition, has never entered his mind, and while others have delved for fame or wealth, he has simply sought the truth...