Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...practical uses to which the accomplishment may be put. It is recognized, too, that the study of Modern Languages is the only means of getting at the treasures locked up in foreign literatures. But here the benefits of the study are considered to cease. The attribute of developing the student's mind-the highest function which can belong to any branch of learning-is denied to Modern Languages, and attributed exclusively to the classics and sciences. The result of this pre-possession against Modern Languages is, naturally enough, a verification of the general notion. Since nobody believes that mental discipline...
FOUND. A black English pointer, with white spot on breast, belonging to some Harvard student. For further information apply at 137 Tudor Street, South Boston...
...article of Saturday last on the Institute of Technology, no mention was made of one of the most prominent features of student life, namely, the "Tech." This journal is in every way worthy of the college it represents, and ranks among the best of American college papers...
...Every student, when he shall have gone away from Cambridge for the last time, will look back to the time when he boarded at Memorial with no small degree of pleasure. Even now as we return after a vacation, we feel a certain pleasure in sitting once more among the noisy groups at the plain rectangular tables in the dining hall. It requires only a few months for a student to get used to the hurry-of his fellow students, not of the waiters, and the noise and clatter. If later he happens to take a meal at a private...
...military tactics. Military drill is required of the men in order that the Institute can obtain a yearly grant from the government. The freshman cadets make a fine battalion of several companies, drilling in the gymnasium several times each week. At the close of the freshman year the student is allowed to choose one of the following ten courses: civil, mechanical, electrical, or mining engineering, architecture, chemistry, natural history, biology, physics, or the general course. When his choice is once made, the student is required to follow it up through the regular studies pertaining to it, during the remainder...