Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Apropos Willard's beautiful home run during the last Amherst game, the Amherst Student remarks: "When Harvard's first-base man hereafter comes to the bat, 'over the fence is out' should be the rule...
...force of gravity is the key-note of the life of the universe. To them we may also add the sociableness and friendships, always attendant upon a college career, and the critical nature and power of clear discernment, which seem to belong to college men, and by which a student is so quickly and generally so rightly estimated. Nowhere, more than at college, does a man pass for what he is and for what he is worth. The scholar and the frand alike, the genius and the crank, are very soon detected by student estimation...
...setting a nominal three hour examination paper containing questions whose answers would require at least three hours and a half to be written from dictation with no time allowed for consideration, seems to retain its old time popularity among the said instructors. Nothing is more discouraging to the laboring student than to realize at the beginning of an examination, that it will be impossible to finish the paper in the time allotted. The hasty work done under such circumstances cannot fail to disgust the instructor, and we can say from experience that it disgusts the writer of the paper...
...location of the cricket crease is attended with great danger to spectators of base-ball games on Jarvis. Several narrow escapes are reported, and a few days ago a student was temporarily disabled by being struck with the heavy cricket ball. It is a very simple matter for the men playing cricket to so locate themselves that the most likely direction taken by the ball will not be into the crowd gathered about the base ball field, or sitting on the few seats yet remaining on Jarvis. If no other location for the cricket crease can be found, every possible...
...student in the University who writes short-hand expertly, and long-hand plainly, wishes a position as amanuensis during the summer. Address, E. C. L., No. 3 Linden St., Cambridge, Mass...