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...dropped, and once dropped have to work hard to get into their class again. It appears from the figures that most of them do work hard and catch up. It is a common experience of upperclassmen, that after the sophomore year men find themselves in an atmosphere decidedly studious. There is nothing to gain by loafing while the incentives to work are numerous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Harvard College Easy to Stay In? | 2/18/1890 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/10/1888 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/11/1888 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/4/1887 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 10/8/1887 | See Source »

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