Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...things, his progress to knowledge will be beset with difficulties of a financial nature. But under the new system no such hindrance exists. "Nous avons change tout cela, says Cornell, "A man may come to our college, poor, but deserving. What shall he do to obtain the necessaries of student life? Simply this, he may enter the feather-weight sparring, and win an easy chair; in the middle-weight he may secure a clock; in the heavy weight he can easily obtain a silk umbrella; by winning the horizontal bar, and the flying rings, he may stock his library...
Perhaps, to the average student, the most interesting portion of the report is that devoted to the athletic reforms. This subject is touched upon in the following words...
...Warren, formerly a special student at Harvard, and a pupil of Mr. Moore of the Fine Arts Department, has on exhibition at Chase's gallery, Hamilton Place, Boston, a fine collection of paintings, and watercolors...
...reading room at College, this plan would fill that vacancy. And it would do more than this, for it would discourage the aimless reading of anything and everything which is found in a newspaper and would render more possible a connected understanding of the public events about which every student should know something...
...attended morning chapel, and seen the way in which it is taken by the students, will not be so harsh in his judgement. Running from bed to breakfast, and then to chapel, half awake, with a half learned lesson, is it surprising that a man under such circumstances should lose the religious significance of the duty? As a revielle, a police regulation to get men out of bed, it does us good service: as a purely religious exercise, we fancy very few would affirm that, as the fact stands now, it is honorable either to the students, or to their...