Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...satisfied at some time during the year. As a source and means of general culture their effectiveness cannot be over-estimated. They generally treat of a broader range of subjects than can be taken up in a college course, and so form a good supplement to the regular student's work...
...Every student is required to follow implicitly the directions with regard to paper, folding, endorsing, etc., given on the English Composition card...
...reference to the study of Homer, Professor Wright urged that the student approach him with the feeling that he is nearing a monument in literature; not to blend futile research into minor matters with the effort to appreciate the poem. This is not necessary. If the student will read the poems of Homer as a literature he will be brought into direct and vivid contact with the poet and will see and understand as by instinct...
...majority of the recent votes. He appeared to take the stand that the system of government in regard to attendance at recitations now in vogue at Harvard, although not materially lowering the average grade of scholarships, led to habits of laxity on the part of a certain class of students-a laxity which could hardly fail to result in an opposition to the true purposes of the University. The opinion of the Board of Overseers as to what is the best remedy for these evils seems to be well expressed in the regulations just passed. Their argument for the first...
...following rule has been posted in the gymnasium at Exeter in the handball court: "No student shall play longer than twenty minutes at one time, if others are waiting to use the court...