Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reply the Emperor stood up and read a speech of fourteen lines, rejoicing in the completion of a work which he had always had at heart and trusting that multitudes would make full proof of the institution, and learn there alike science and patriotism. He was greeted with a student song, and a triple shout of "Hoch !" Then several persons prominent in building the pile were presented to him as he walked about, and all was over. His dress was the ordinary Austrian uniform, with no ornaments save the medals and chains of certain orders...
...answer to the inquiries made some time ago in the CRIMSON as to the requirements for admission to the Shakespeare club, the following extracts are given from the recently adopted Constitution of the club: "The name of any student of Harvard University who has finished an elective course in elocution, may be proposed for active member ship by the executive committee, *** but one negative vote in six shall exclude the candidate." "The number of active members after Oct. 1, 1885, shall not exceed twenty-five." "Any person interested in the object of the club may be elected an homorary member...
...Students in other colleges are continually complaining because they are treated more as school-boys than as college men. Monitors are appointed to watch theeir deportment in recitation, all such methods are resorted to which belong only to a preparatory school. Harvard, we are glad to say, is almost totally free from any such childish methods of discipline. Still it is to be regretted that so many of our instructors are obliged to ask for better attention and less disturbance in the recitation rooms. It is certainly rude for any student to read or converse during a recitation or lecture...
...able to stimulate and incite his pupils and to convert the knowledge he posessed into to a lever lift, exercise and strengthen the growing minds committed to his care." Few realize the importance and truth that is contained in these simple words and we believe that many of the students do not even give a thought about the instructors they elect courses under. Naturally a man reasons that in the choice of an elective he should only pick out those subjects, which will do him the most good, and care little as to what instructors he will come under...
...gather by glancing at the title-page; he has not only abridged much that is unnecessary to-day in the original text, but he has added a great deal of matter in the form of extensive notes. A number of diagrams have been inserted in order to aid the student in getting a graphic representation of the principles, while a number of charts, valuable not only for reading, but for continual reference have been scattered through the volume. In every possible case, American illustrations have been employed in the text instead of English or Continental ones, and to American students...