Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most Americans the every day life of the student of an English university is an almost unknown subject, Their information about it is mainly derived from the brilliant pictures of university life which the English novel occasionally affords us. It would be difficult to imagine a life more free and pleasant than that which the Oxford student enjoys. Although the social entertainment and amusements of the town of Oxford are few, he need never be at a loss for occupation, for the university is most completely a world by itself, which possesses innumerable sources of amusement on account of this...
...entered the library. A large college like Harvard must necessarily contain men of every shade, of taste and purpose. Some of us are here to get through, others for strange and unknown reasons, a few to work. It is not necessary to be a "grind," or even a hard student to become cultivated. It is of no consequence whatever what makes a man if he is only well made. But to be "well made" there are some things which we must all do. Although it may not be necessary to have read Beattie's essay on "Classical Education...
...effort is being made by a few of the instructors in political economy, aided by some of the students, to enroll as many Massachusetts students as possible in the Massachusetts Tariff Reform League, the object of which is a reduction in the present tariff rates. While we do not intend to advocate either side of the great struggle which is going on between the tariff men and the revenue reformers, the subject certainly deserves to receive careful consideration at the hands of every student, if he has not already done so. The present canvass, which is, however, confined...
...Manhatten Athletic Grounds in New York were, on Saturday, alive with a large crowd of contestants and spectators, all interested in the ninth annual games of the I. G. A. A. Delegations of student spectators were present from several colleges, noticeably Columbia, Yale, Princeton and Leigh, while a small knot of Harvard man cheered on the contestants from Cambridge. The day in New York, as well as here, was warm, and although too much for some of the contestants took any chilliness out of the air and warmed up the men to their work as the records show...
...school; it would give a year more for following out any particular branch a man may elect. Nearly every one feels how short a time three years is to accomplish anything definite, and the added year would go far to make the college education more satisfactory both to the student and to the outside world, while the increased age of the men would certainly promise a better sort of work than is now given, at least in the first year...