Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spectacle which occurred in a Senior committee meeting of a man voting for himself in sixteen straight ballots is both ludicrous and sad.-[Amherst Student...
...constrained to believe, though with regret, that the average student of the university has become so accustomed to the visits of the summons boy, as to pay but little heed to the invitations of which he is the bearer, other than to note the time at which his presuce at U. 8, is required and make such mendacious preparation as seems best to him for passing the inevitable ordeal. But, on receiving our annual summons yesterday we noticed that it differed from our last summons, received exactly one year ago, in that the seal of the college which...
...some respects, she is already wholly unlike the American colleges, whereas in others she retains her old form. Now we hope our readers will not misunderstand what we are going to say. What we are going to advocate is not a step backward on the part of the students, but a corresponding step forward on the part of the Powers that Be-a recognition of the progress of student public sentiment...
...misunderstand us. We do not wish to advocate organized agitation and disturbance, on the contrary, we are as glad and proud as anybody, that such things are no longer possible here at Harvard. We simply wish to remind the Powers That Be, of the fact that although their students may have outgrown the old ways of enforcing attention to their needs and grievances, the Powers themselves, have not outgrown the habit of kindly permitting the students to have needs and grievances. Gentlemen of the Faculty, Corporation, and Overseers, remember that now the college papers are the only expression you have...
...confession that ought to shame a man, and we wonder that anyone should care to make it. The library is without doubt the most useful and valuable institution connected with the University. It is one of the two or three largest libraries in the country. That a student should go through college without once drawing books from it, it indeed surprising. Nothing can be easier than using the library, with such a complete and convenient catalogue and such a simple method of drawing books. The library might do half the educational work of the college if the students only gave...