Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Memorial Hall has had its usual spring vacation quota of boarders, between two hundred and fifty and three hundred, considerably more than were there during the Christmas recess. The library has been almost deserted, the finals being far enough removed to cause little or no anxiety to the average student. Withal the vacation has been a very pleasant one, and the universal cry is, "Oh, for another week like this...
...Abbreviated Longhand," is the title of a neat little text-book from the pen of Wallace Ritchie. The topic treated sets forth a system of note-taking which may be learned in a short space of time by any student, and which materially diminishes the amount of drudgery attendant upon lecture courses. "Punctuation and Capitalization," is the title given a text-book devoted to the especial consideration of these important branches of rhetoric. The subject is treated in an eminently practical manner. Both the above works are from the publishing house of J. B. Huling, Chicago...
...complaint against any such course as either of the two of which we speak, unless the course be made a full course and the lecture system adopted in place of the too elementary method of study which is at present pursued in English VII. In this way the student would have ample time to bestow upon the work of the course, and could feel that the course would repay the close study bestowed upon...
...these days of rebellion against compulsory prayers, and of numerously signed, but ungranted petitions, it would be well to bear in mind the burdens under which the students of earlier days of the college had to struggle. During a part of the 17th, and the earlier years of the last century, prayers were held both morning and evening. In the morning each student had to translate a verse of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek, and in the evening a verse of the New Testament from the English or Latin translation into Greek. Before 1728, however, this system...
...told by Prof. Shaler. Prof. Sophocles happened upon Prof. Shaler, just after the examination, and Prof. Shaler was groaning over the unsatisfactoriness of correcting the examination books. Prof. Sophocles asked him in surprise, "Do you correct the Blue Books? Why do you do it? You know how much each student ought to get. If he does not do so well as you expected, it makes no difference, and if he does much better, he's cheating...