Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...where they are most deficient; shall he lay out his college course as a foundation for his chosen business in life, or as a foundation for broad living? The fact that these questions are answered so differently by persons whose opinions are worthy of consideration should not lead any student to think that it is unnecessary or impossible for him to answer them. The fact that such antagonists between the supporters of the opposite views indicate that the questions do not admit of a universal answer, but that they should be differently answered by each individual. Harvard stands first among...
...freshman year embraces many diverse branches of learning. Yet a college career, putting aside the minor studies or specialties, must fall on one of the two roads of learning, the classical or the practical. The former road we may safely predict is fairly well known and understood by the students, of their school education has been the average one, and it is the latter course that gives the tyro the most difficulty to classify. Roughly speaking, a classical course of study embraces mathematics, history, modern languages, philosophy and political economy and English literature. There is naturally a great variety...
...senior class is once more called upon to sustain the loss of one of its members, in the death of Aaron Roger Crane. The sudden death of a student within less than a month of graduation must be attended with peculiar sadness, and cannot fail to cast a gloom over the whole college. It is hard to realize that a man who seemed in such perfect physical condition should meet with such a sudden and mysterious end, and this complete unexpectedness only serves to make the event more impressive in its sadness. To those who knew Roger Crane, and they...
...Amherst hereafter, no student shall enter any athletic games, base-ball or foot-ball, without the permission of the department of physical education and hygiene...
...great discussion concerning the study of classics has broadened its scope until we are confronted with the question, what constitutes superficiality in collegiate courses of study? The near approach of a final decision as to what shall be the chosen electives for the ensuing academic year causes the student much unsatisfactory deliberation, while the advice which is ordinarily given at this period is even, if possible, of a still more unsatisfying nature. We hear on the one hand the accusation of superficiality and on the other the equally disagreeable taunt of being a specialist. We see one man, confident...