Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college come to Cambridge, look about the yard, admire the size, number and architectural beauty (as in Hollis and Stoughton) of the buildings, look into one or two of the recitation halls, hurry through the Museums, visit the library, and last but best of all, see the crowds of students enjoying with true students of students enjoying with true student relish the tempting spread on a Memorial Hall board. They have seen Harvard, or think they have, and go away satisfied doubtless to talk of Harvard's many fine buildings and superior advantages. But really they have seen only...
Camplaint is made in the Amherst Student that it costs as much to play billiards in the Gymnaseum as in any of the billiard saloons of the town. The following pathetic cry is raised. "If our spiritual guardians would bring the wandering sinner, who at present revels in the wickedness of the hotel billiard room, back to the fold of the new Gym., the most effectual way in which they can do it is by appealing to the financial interests of the above mentioned wanderer...
...necessity for an extension of the time during which the library is open is steadily growing with the growth of the college. The number of students in several of the courses, has already increased so in the last few years, that the old provisions of the library are no longer adequate to give all the members of those courses a chance to get at the reference books. One of the history courses has recognized the insufficiency of the present arrangements to meet the demand for reference books, by its purpose of issuing a pamphlet with condensed notes of the important...
...meet increasing demand more books should be furnished, or more time given the student to use the books now in the library. During the winter months the library will close as early as half-past four, being open in all seven and a half hours. If it were kept open till eight or nine in the evening, there would be from three and a half to four and half hours added. This would increase the time, during which books would be accessible, by one-half. The additional hours also would come when many men do their hardest work, and when...
...passed over and forgotten, apparently no effort whatever being made by the proper authorities to put a stop to the nuisance by detecting and punishing the offenders. We are led to refer to the subject again because of a recent and daring case of theft. Last week a student, upon going to dinner at Memorial, hung his overcoat upon one of the hooks at the side of the hall. Imagine his supreme disgust, when looking for his coat after dinner, to find that it had been stolen, almost under his very eyes. Now why should we be continually troubled...