Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student recently fainted in one of the recitation rooms, the air of which was said to be so impure that it was fairly sickening. [Amherst Student...
...city. It has an endowment fund of $300,000 given by Johns Hopkins in the year 1867. Three of these buildings are laboratories; the chemical, the physical and the biological laboratories. The others contain recitation and lecture rooms and the library. There are no dormitories or dining associations. A student goes to college solely for work, and expects no class systems or class associations. He arranges his own board and lodging in some neighboring private house. In consequence of this arrangement, the faculty are never troubled with the vexing question of student disturbances...
...requirements for admission are about equal to those at Harvard, with a little more stress laid on French and German. A student may substitute them for Greek. For the college course, which is generally three years, the student has to choose, with some alternatives, from seven courses of study. If, for instance, he wishes to pursue a classical course, course I would be his choice. This includes Latin and Greek with the alternative of Mathematics or History. In Latin, besides composition there are nine authors to be read, among them Livy, Horace, Tacitus, Cicero and Juvenal. In Greek there...
...Student Boarders. - One club table can be accommodated at No. 16 Oxford street, and also a few seats at the general table. Mrs. W. J. Pike...
...notice calling the attention of the members of the Shakspere Club to their first meeting of this year should be heeded. The club has made an enviable record. All the students, and indeed the general public, remember with satisfaction the evening readings by Mr. Jones, the lectures by Mr. Dougherty and Mr. Irving, and the great play of last year. The club has lost many valuable men in '85, - men whose places it will be hard to fill. The energetic president, however, is still here, and will do much to place the club again in a working condition. Having once...