Word: studious
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...take their degrees in three years renders some change in the system of conferring almost inevitable, and that in the near future. Many men at the close of their Junior year are forced to choose between the easy, happy life of a Senior, and the more secluded, studious life of a member of a graduate school. The considerations which influence their decision may best be summarized as financial, athletic and social. They are too well known to need discussion...
...studious assemblies that have attended the course have been much impressed by Professor Baker's free manner of presenting the great period of English literature, and particularly by his clear and measured diction...
...annual Senior picnic has been and gone. Yesterday morning a noble body of 325 Seniors separated themselves from their studious tasks and wended their way to Nantasket, where the festive day was celebrated with great rejoicing. Amid the curses of all Cambridge a noisy drum and a squeaky horn traversed the streets of our noble city and awoke its sleepy inhabitants. There was no question in the minds of all, but that the Seniors were loose for the day. After some weird and wonderful music by this voluntary band, Kanrich's bunch of tunemurderers arrived in the Yard and were...
...would be impossible to state in detail the numerous incidents that made the day eventful and enjoyable. Not until the rain and the darkness turned the thoughts of the studious homeward did the sea-worthy crew of the "King Philip" up anchor and away...
...author goes on to say: "The figures go far to show that the Harvard undergraduate is not the arrant idler he is sometimes supposed to be. On the other hand, they cannot be said to lend much support to the belief that he is more studious than his predecessor of twenty-five years ago. . . . The fact seems to be that the undergraduate studies about as much now as the undergraduate of his father's time studied." The working time of the present ordinary undergraduate could be increased, but the boy does not go to college merely to study. The public...