Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attempts at co-operative government which have been tried at several colleges, and to compare the various systems with the plan of a conference committee which is shortly to come up before our faculty. The Amherst Senate, inasmuch as it is the oldest and best known of student governing bodies, first deserves our attention. Much has been written about it, much indeed which is untrue or misleading, and we hope therefore that this article may correct any wrong impressions which have been made...
...idea of a student board of government is due to President Seelye of Amherst, in accordance with whose suggestion the senate was established at that college about two years ago. As the body owes its origin thus to the faculty rather than to the students of Amherst, its continuance is well assured, and the powers with which it is invested are considerable...
...senate is purely a student body, with the exception of the president, and numbers ten; of these, one represents the freshman class, two the sophomore, three the junior, and four the senior. The senators are elected for a term comprising two college terms; a length of duration in office which prevents the membership of the body from being entirely changed at any time, and, by the frequent rotation in office, renders it more nearly a representative of college sentiment. The president of the college sentiment. The president of the college is the president of the senate. The right of absolute...
...views upon alma mater, give a capital representation of life at Harvard. They comprise birds-eye views of the college and its surroundings, pictures of the buildings and of their interior, pictures of the yard, and all the other scenes so well known to us. Nor are the students themselves neglected. There is a view of Memorial in full operation, of a base-ball game on Holmes, and of the Harvard Princeton foot-ball game on Jarvis. The torch-light procession also is depicted accurately and strikingly, and the way we go to prayers is revealed in a manner which...
...consider a single case; suppose a student, while a mere boy, has consented to take his father in with him to the paternal business, but that the wisdom which comes with long continued meditation shows him his mistake. He has learned the fallacy of his early reasoning. The object of life is pleasure and self-improvement. Money is but a means. The money getter makes it and end. Therefore he, the student, will not go into business, but travel, perhaps write a little, develop naturally as a flower, and live the only life possible for a rational graduate...