Word: studious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot avail themselves of opportunities for oral instruction. Its membership is to include persons of both sexes. The work in the school is carried on at home by a regular correspondence with a careful instructor, and the method, which is purely inductive, will depend for success upon the studious purpose of the pupil. An elementary course is also offered in Aramaic. Arabic and Assyrian...
...overseers of Yale following the example of Harvard in the matter of athletics. Not only do I consider wholesome athletic exercises beneficial but necessary in college life, and the best way to promote them is by means of the intercollegiate games. A good athlete is generally a studious pupil, but, of course, there are exceptions.'"- Yale News...
...truly sorry to hear of the dissolution of the Everett Athenaeum. This society, since its formation in 1868, has always been composed of studious, industrious men, and even if it has not sustained its originally literary character, yet it has served to bring together in a pleasant, social way, those members of each succeeding sophomore class, who could certainly have sustained it as well as did their predecessors. We trust that the plan now under consideration for forming a new literary society may be eminently successful, and that we shall soon hear that the Everett Athenaeum is flourishing again under...
...main, honorable, studious fellows, and it seems hard that they should receive such a raking over the coals merely because they like a rough-and-ready, good time once in a while. LOYAL...
...kind-hearted man can possibly have any objection to having the youth of Cambridge disport themselves on the gently sloping hill that leads down from President Eliot's house to the Library, when the hard frozen snow invites to sleds and toboggaus. But we do object to having the studious part of the college community exposed to the constant risk of being taken off their feet by the runners of the little coasters as they come flying down the slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this...