Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bowen of the senior class has been engaged for some months in preparing a lecture upon Harvard, which he intends to give during the coming summer, in various cities and towns of the country. Feeling, however, that the most critical audience would be those most concerned-Harvard students themselves,-the gentleman has kindly consented to give a private rehearsal of his lecture this evening before the members of his class, to whom he has accordingly sent invitations. The lecture, we learn, will be called "Harvard University, or, What I saw at College," and will be illustrated by stereopticon views. Among...
...order to justify an alarming innovation in the Divinity School, where also the pxan of freedom is sounded by President Eliot. The Dean of the school calls special attention to the fact that "marks for absence were first given up at lectures, then at chapel, and finally the student was left free to select the studies that he would pursue, and the order in which he would pursue them." This is the more extraordinary because we cannot imagine theological students to be capable of a perfunctory performance at prayers, as is the case with ninety-nine hundredths of the undergraduates...
...student fire brigade has been organized in the University of Wisconsin...
...Chinese student at Yale has taken the first prize for English composition...
Again the time of the annual college lottery draws near. The rules and regulations, governing this distribution of the few prizes, and the many blanks, have been received by each student, with the Bursar's periodic compliments. Several changes are noticed in the method of assigning college rooms. Hereafter, Holworthy is to become a special paradise of upper class men. No '89 man can have even the satisfaction of imagining that he has a small chance of becoming an inmate of those inviting walls. Sub-freshmen and all under-graduates, this year, will make their applications at the same time...