Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...where rowing has taken root, and of this number 5,537 graduated. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia are among the colleges, whose records were examined. Of rowing men there were 329, of whom 244 received their degrees." At all colleges there is a standard of scholarship below which a student cannot fall, and yet graduate. It requires only moderate ability to reach this standard. Athletes being reputed stupid, it would follow that few of them can graduate, and such as do only squeeze through their examinations. But an inspection of the college records reveals quite a different story. It shows...
...room wanted in the yard. Address, Student, Harvard Co-operative Society, Cambridge...
...striking feature in the statistics of the forthcoming catalogue is, however, worthy of more than passing notice. We refer to the marked increase in the number of special students now enrolled. Under the old order of things this increase might have occasioned the remark that the number of drones in the Harvard hive has been greatly augmented, for it cannot be denied that there was once a time in the history of the college when the appellation of "special" marked a student as one who was either too indolent or too dull to successfully complete the regular curriculum. Under...
...executive committee of the Harvard Union is to be congratulated upon "the choice of subject for debate this evening. The Chinese question is a question of vital interest to every American citizen. It is one of the foremost issues of the day, and demands the earnest consideration of every student of political economy. It is a subject of discussion to-day throughout the country, and finds a place in the platform of every political party. Every student should interest himself in the debate, and make it the means of studying one of the most trying questions...
Notable among the features of American colleges is the system of secret societies. In fact in some colleges the system has grown to such an extent and the society question has become such a paramount one, that it engrosses a large part of the student's life, and enlists him in a mighty conflict for the supremacy of his society. The rivalry between the Greek letter societies in some of our smaller colleges is so great that neighboring cities are often visited by enthusiastic society men, and a canvass made of the incoming freshmen, who are then cajoled, entertained...