Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...change in the hour of examinations from 10 to 9.15 A. M. appears to be extremely distasteful to many undergraduates, and complaints are again heard against the "wiles of the crafty faculty" which thus deprive the poor student of an hour in which he hopes by a stupendous exertion to review the work of months. We think that these complaints are unjust, and that the authors of the new rule have shown their real regard for the student's interest by thus depriving them of that time in which many men against their better judgment, unfit themselves by hard study...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- It was recently urged, in a communication to the CRIMSON, that the college should establish a course in journalism. The correspondent holding that by this means the student could acquire the experience given to law students in the moot-courts of the Law School. An interview with some of the best known and most experienced journalists of Boston, which it has been my good fortune to have, would convince one to the contrary. In their opinion such a course would be of no practical use whatever, unless a model newspaper office was established, and that...
...college student, these gentlemen maintain that there is no practical course other than connection with a college paper, and they strongly advise connection with some outside daily at the time. A man should learn to know what he wants to say, and then say it in the clearest and fewest possible words. Good practice is obtained by reporting events for pleasure and comparing with the newspaper accounts. Much attention should be given to Law, History, and English Literature, as well as the other subjects mentioned by Mr. Reid...
...Winslow was chosen chairman of the student members of the Conference, with full power to call a further meeting...
...most trying experiences of Harvard student life is the sensation of daily contact with a source of annoyance which time can never dull and which increases in its power of discomfort as time goes on. The troubles arising from the increasing advent of the "mucker" element have never assumed such proportions as at the present. Every form of this much agitated question has been discussed again and again. And as often the college authorities have refused to take any notice of the matter. But it is at last time that some action should be taken, if not by the faclty...