Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...familiar landmark to every college man. Its disappearance is both a loss and a gain, so that the old adage : "It is an ill wind" etc., holds true. The antiquaries much deplore the breaking up of the ancient dwelling with its many historic associations, and even the thoughtless student as he passes the site now vacant cannot but have a little regret that the gambrel roof and the yellow and white house has gone forever. When the old house was destroyed much of the wood was sold to relic hunters to be made into souvenirs, and several complete parts, such...
...should be immediately taken, before a meeting of the association can be called. The necessary expenses of the association for the spring and fall are about $350, and as about 200 men usually join, the assessment will be 75 cents in the fall and $1.00 in the spring, Any student failing to pay this assessment ceases to become a member of the association and is ineligible for any college tournament, while no further fee than the above assessment is necessary to join the association...
...officer will be appointed to see daily that no one plays without them. This measure has been taken as many men considered it honorable last spring to play without contributing to the cost of making new courts to have been given to the association by the college. A student may bring a friend who does not belong to the college on the grounds. The fall assessment of 75 cents may be paid to and tickets received from Mr. H. P. Peirson, 51 Thayer, every morning from...
...first peculiarity of Wellesley that strikes a Harvard student is the simple fact that all the innocent "freshmen," high and mighty "Sophs," etc., are girls. It is a girl who says in your hearing "she got plucked." They are, girls who are playing tennis over there. It is a girl-crew out on the lake that is learning the new Yale stroke. But here the analogy ceases, no "mighty daughters of the plough" are trying their rushing qualities in that game which is so popular at Yale and Princeton, nor can we see any signs of a diamond. Botany appears...
...curriculum of study while compulsory is equal to any which could be pursued by any one student at Harvard, and the teaching is of an exceptionally high standard. Many pretty college stories are told by the students to their visitors and none more often than that one referring to the great popularity of the present president. It was once asked if Wellesley was denominational. Yes, was the answer, the students are Roman Catholics. What, Roman Catholics? Yes, they worship the virgin...