Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recall with pleasure our association with him in our college life. As a student he took high rank among us by diligent and careful work. At the same time he entered actively into the sports and into the social and religious life of the college. But it was by his personal qualities that he won the affections of his immediate friends and the respect of all. His life was marked by the high purposes, the honesty, and the purity of a christian character. His bearing was manly and kindly toward...
...Monday, October 14, the class will meet in Sever 11. Every student will hand in at the desk the subject of his second long theme, and a note stating what suggested it. The subject and the note should be written on a page of theme paper, and the leaf should be folded and endorsed like a daily theme. In the endorsement of fortnightly themes students will hereafter use numbers instead of names. Every student will receive his number on Monday...
...Every student is required to follow implicitly the directions with regard to paper, folding, endorsing, etc., given on the English Composition card...
Tonight begins again the series of Harvard Union meetings which for years past have been so successful in training men in public speaking and parliamentary practice. It must be remembered that the Union is distinctly a student organization, managed by and for the undergraduates, and hence that it needs the support of the college at large. This, too, it deserves. It has been and is its purpose to present for discussion at each meeting, some one timely topic, either of public or of local student interest. The discussion upon the chosen subject is carried on in perfect parliamentary manner...
...Birtwell of the class of '82, secretary of the Children's Aid Society was then introduced. He said there were two leading points to be considered in discussing student work. First the work must be of itself of real value, and second it must suggest the broader and deeper problem of life. The work suggested does lead directly into all the great social questions of the day, intemperance, divorce, prison reform, everything in fact except the Indian question. At the close of the meeting Professor Peabody requested all who were willing to undertake the work to communicate with...