Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...average college journalist is seldom possessed of sufficient nerve to attack abuses which through long standing have become recognized as unassailable and beyond the student's reach. With the advent of warm weather we may expect to hear a few smothered imprecations over matters which, though to the freshman eye enormous evils, have become perfectly adapted to the Harvard condition of calm, admiring and independent indifference. It is needless to say that we refer, not to the pump, it is true, nor to that summer boarder, the mucker, who like the poor, is always with us, but to the "state...
...only not abolished compulsory prayers, but has remodeled the old method of conducting them so that now they are more impressive than ever. The new change inaugurated yesterday marks a revolution. The teachings of the Quakers have received support. Hereafter no one will be required to officiate, but each student will quietly mediate, and wait for the moving of the spirit. In order to accomplish this revolution, a few more changes are necessary. Abolish the boy choir, do away with ringing of the bell, strip the Chapel of its decorations, and finally remove the compulsory feature, and allow the Quaker...
...very recently that the comparatively new science of political economy has received from educators the attention which it deserves. It is due largely to the energy of one of our own instructors that the study of economics has come into prominence as an element in the panoply of a student. During the past two years Professor Laughlin has delivered lectures and written magazine articles on this subject, and the interest which they excited warranted him to publish the substance of his thought in permanent form, and the result is a little book, entitled "The Study of Political Economy," from...
...mind. Exactness, clearness, and directness of statement are cultivated. The imagination, too, plays an important part. The logical powers are vigorously exercised, no loose thinking is tolerated. The next chapter on the "Relations of Political Economy to the Law, the Ministry, and Journalism," is very interesting reading. Every student who intends entering one of these professions should read the chapter carefully before deciding upon the studies of his college course. In the last chapter Professor Laughlin has given the quintessence of his experience in teaching; and his methods, as is well known, have given great impetus to the study...
...book is of the greatest value to every student in enabling him to make a wise selection of studies, and is thus performing a great service to the students. It should be in the library of every man in college...