Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...departure in our higher seats of learning. When indiscriminate choices are prompted, as in not a few cases they are, by the love of ease, or by some freak of fancy, it is easy to say what will be the effect on the intellectual life and growth of the student who makes such choices. But, where an institution is situated, as Brown University is, in the midst of a mechanical, manufacturing and commercial community, where there are scores of young men to whom a mere literary training is a matter of secondary consideration, it must make provision for the education...
...prize of $50 has been offered the student of Union College making the best extemporaneous speech at a public competition held during commencement week...
...boat-house and a casual inspection of the boats and oars there stored is apt to make the visitor take his departure with plenty of food for reflection, and unpleasant reflection it cannot fail to be. The University Boat Club is supported by the subscriptions of the students, and it has always been supposed that some provision is made for the aquatic exercise desired by those who are not members of either of the five regular crews. Yet what is the real state of matters? A glance at the array of craft tucked away upon the brackets discloses the fact...
JUNIOR THEMES.Theme I will be due on Thursday, October 23. Subject: A criticism of some important work of some good author. No student will choose for criticism the work that he criticised last year...
...Harvard student, to whom time is not money, will read with deep satisfaction the announcement that the Charles River horse cars may now be ridden upon for four cents. The outlook is now promising indeed. May we not expect that the railroad war thus inaugurated will rage with ever increasing fierceness until its results shall far exceed anything yet known in the history of Cambridge travelling? What can be more obvious than that the Cambridge road will promptly reduce its fares to three cents, and that the rival lines will continue to "see each other and go one lower" until...