Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...turn the occasion into a tumultuous demonstration of boyish deviltry is too great to be resisted, and this demonstration, though harmless enough in itself, it may be, is at once seized upon by the daily press as a text from which to print long disquisitions upon the degeneracy of student manners...
...commenting on President Seelye's recently expressed hostility to college papers, the Collegian, a paper published by college graduates in New York, says editorially: "We believe that no branch of the college curriculum is of greater or more permanent benefit to the student than the 'elective' of college journalism. No required literary exercise so tends to develop originality of conception, facility of expression, and finish of style. 'The best school of journalism in the world,' said Prof. Thwing, 'is the editorial board of a college journal.' From the college paper graduate the trained writers, the authors, the editors, who mould...
...student to-day asks only for recognition and the right of conference. Let these be granted him, and undoubtedly he will be quieted for some time; but sooner or later he must again arouse himself and seek for something more that shall give him legislative and executive power. Indeed, he would ask for this power to-day, did he not know that he who is greedy often loses all. His hopes are that what now to may seems so ideal may, in the end, become quite real and present, that the existing college government may evolve into a government...
What does the college student want? Are his views communistic, socialistic, nihilistic? Does he claim that he can and should teach as well as learn, and that he and his instructor should be equal? Is he rapid in his ideas, and does he believe in the effectiveness of dynamite? To all these questions, no. The poor man, the laborer, the ignorant and idle citizen, may cry out for common living, for community of money, property, government, and even brains; but the college student is able to realize that two classes are the law of nature; that the instructor...
...newly formed committee of the faculty for further censorship of student undertakings has recently been formed. It has nothing to do with athletics or the athletic committee, but apparently has powers fully as absolute. To this committee the manager of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals in aid of the university crew, applied for permission to sell tickets for the New York performances publicly in that city, i. e. at certain well known and reputable places. This request was not granted, and the faculty committee even refused to allow the posting of notices in Cambridge stores stating that the theatricals would...