Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suggests harmonious colors, inviting easy chairs, a few choice pictures; a happy blending of order and confusion in the details; a wooden mantel, framing a fire-place, and perhaps a bust of Minerva, or, at least, a stuffed owl presiding over it; book-cases filled with all that a student needs to have at hand, leaning in comfortable retirement against the walls; a study. with room enough for fifty people, and not too much...
...course in evening readings from the languages is one of the most instructive exercises which are given the students, supplementary to the college course. Although at present no provision has been made for readings from the Latin or German, the high order of the readings in Greek and French promises well for the success of those given later. Nothing can so stimulate the student to a desire to become intimately acquainted with a language and its literature as contact with a master of the language. This is foreseen in the selection of the professors who are to give the readings...
John E. Ingalls, of Denmark, Iowa, a student of Phillips Academy, was drowned in the river at Exeter while bathing Saturday afternoon...
...trotting, cantering, jumping, etc. Col. Dodge has succeeded in giving much excellent advice on the management of a horse, while at the same time holding the reader's attention by the interest of the narrative. Tom, the companion of the author on many of his rambles, is a Harvard student who is just taking his first lessons in horsemanship, and it is through advice given him that much valuable knowledge is conveyed to the reader.- (Price, $3.00; Houghton, Mifflin...
...each issue an article by a professor or by some graduate of note. By this plan, we hope to make the magazine more valuable in itself, and to bring into closer connection those who represent the university in the world at large, and those undergraduates who are doing representative student work. Another feature of the magazine will be its book reviews. Whatever literary ability exists in Harvard to-day is distinctly critical in tone and spirit, and every effort will be made to have such reviews as may be published careful and exact, and based on sound principles of criticism...