Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question is, "Where shall I go now?" So thinks the student who has completed his four years of college life. Many men are obliged to go into business, others seek experience in travel, but there are a few who find themselves able to follow out some line of study in which they are interested. It is for such men that the following brief description of the great French schools is intended. The German universities are a favorite resort for the ambitions, but there is a kind of training that they do not give, and that want is supplied...
...more than twenty men are admitted in a year, according to the regulations, but an American student would not find much difficulty in obtaining entrance. The instruction is in the hands of seven professors and a secretary...
...Maine student is reported as saying: The Chicago convention has signed the death warrant of the Republican party...
...words about it. This school seems to have found a solution of the problem which has been puzzling the brains of educators for a number of years past,-how to teach modern languages in classes so that they may become real and live to the students. The scheme is to educate the ear as well as the eye by assiduous practice, so that the languages can be spoken as well as read, and it is almost useless for us to add that this method is the only thoroughly satisfactory one. English, for the time being, is left behind entirely...
...full courses nominally involve an equal amount of work, and a certain per cent. in one course is supposed to represent the same excellence as that indicated by the same per cent. in any other course. If this were realized in fact, then students at Harvard would be likely to select those courses which would give them the most benefit. But it is not realized; every course has its reputation as "stiff" or as "soft," and every instructor has his reputation as a strict or easy marker. The student may have to decide between two courses with full knowledge that...