Word: studiousness
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...from here we come to the library which contains 250,000 volumes, many of them of great age and value. The most precious is undoubtedly the famous "Book of Kells," an old illuminated work on parchment, of rare merit as a work of art. The library is open to studious citizens, as well as to those connected with the college and there is a tine reading hall...
...change the question of fact. But there is something else to be said in favor of the hour examination besides that it gives the instructor valuable information about the work of his section. There can be no doubt that in a certain measure it helps many of the less studious by virtually forcing them to make up back work and to prepare themselves, at least superficially, upon the subject in question. This, however, is all we can say in its favor, and on reviewing the question we seriously think that hour examinations ought never to be held except under...
...feel a real and vital union with it long before they have looked upon its halls or been within scores of leagues of its central habitation. At stated times committees of the professors go forth and hold examinations - in other words, the college thus goes forth to meet the studious and ambitious youths, who are under the remoter training, and lead them home to it. And not only in this particular way does the college extend its power but in the more general radiation of its influence socially, through the press, by the flashing out of the college spirit...
...this or that taste. To be more specific, at Cambridge there are seventeen colleges, differing in the advantages offered, from which the incoming student elects according to preference. The choice is made according to the class of men with whom he wishes to associate. The more studious man will look to the college which offers the best prizes and affords the best opportunities for gaining instruction. But that large class of men which goes to college with other considerations equal to that of acquiring knowledge and culture, also bears in mind what kind of men it will be thrown...
...Sloane Kennedy, the compiler of the lives of Longfellow and Whittier, takes a very friendly view of Harvard students. He objects to the popular idea that Harvard students are either boating men, base-ball players or "howling swells," and characterizes the representative Harvard man as "simply a quiet, studious young man, only to be distinguished from other well dressed young men by a certain air of intellectualism and that appearance of lofty disdain which characterizes students everywhere. It is an error to suppose that more than a very few indeed of the Harvard students are intemperate or licentious The Harvard...