Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only young lady student at the Boston University Law School is called appropriately by the men law students their sister-in-law. - N. Y. Post...
...Record recently contained the following very interesting Harvard note: "Several instructors omitted their lectures to-day." This note suggests to us perhaps one of the pleasantest features of a college course. Where the Record euphoniously says "omitted," the ordinary college student would murderously say "cut." Without "cuts" the college man would find his life almost, perhaps quite unbearable; a statement, which is well proved by the fact that where cuts are not given occasionally, the student is very likely to take them semi-occasionally. Of course the conclusion follows at once that it is policy for instructors to do some...
...recent article in one of the leading weeklies throws light on a side of German student-life, which is not often touched upon in the frequent accounts of the manners and customs of our Teutonic fellow-laborers in the large universities. Reference is made to the great prevalence of poverty among the students, and the increase of pauperism under the fostering care of immense charitable organizations...
Here they find pecuniary aid in numberless "bursaries" and private benevolent institutions, while their inner man is kept in proper trim by distributions each year, by societies of thousands of meal checks. One of these latter organizations in Vienna, the "Committee for Student's Refectories," distributes annually 10,000 such checks...
Many of these aspirants for learning and free-lunch have honest ideas of what work is, and so, by ruining their health in study, give occasion for the German equivalent of a "fresh-air" charity. This we find under the name of "Sick Student's Relief Association." which sends large numbers of men to the health resorts and other recruiting places...