Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...investigations which have been conducted by the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor have resulted in some interesting facts regarding the health of female students. The commonly accepted opinion that mental labor, if at all severe or long continued, is prejudicial to health, is here refuted by statistics derived from various sources. In one case, seven hundred and four returns made, it was found that seventy-eight per cent of the women graduates heard from, were in good health. Upon entering college, the health of twenty per cent was below par. After graduation, impaired health was found in only seventeen per cent...
...club of student scan be accommodated with a large front dining room at No. 5 Linden Street...
...club of student scan be accommodated with a large front dining room at No. 5 Linden Street...
...experience of all students who are candid with themselves, must lead them to oppose exact numerical marking. Princeton, Pennsylvania, Ann Arbor, and Johns Hopkins, have discarded it, adopting grading by classes. Why is Harvard so backward? Why is it that this college dedicated to truth clings with such tenacity to an outgrown institution? The students should raise a voice condemning this evil. And this voice should be heard in the conference with no uncertain sound. The resolution which was tabled expressing a foregone conclusion, should have been passed, and ought certainly to be passed at the next meeting. With this...
...advantage in certain courses. It depends entirely upon the nature of a course, whether several fragmentary reviews or one thorough examination would prove the more useful. The character of some courses absolutely demands frequent and exacting tests, which in other courses would be unnecessary, if not ridiculous. Each student who is allowed the privilege of choice in the matter must himself decide upon the merits of each view presented...