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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...easy to tell a lyceen from a collegien (college being the generic term now applied to the higher class of clerical schools) by his way of conducting himself in the presence of his elders," says the London Times. "The lyceen is a rougher fellow altogether. He lives in a sort of barracks, wears a uniform, counts only as a unit in a mass who are governed in a semi-military fashion, and gets little or no separate attention from his masters. Outside the college walls no moral restraint is put upon him at all. If a professor saw him smoking...
...plan which the committee propose includes the following particulars: That a course of study should be prepared to extend over a term of four years; that it should be arranged in groups; that of these groups one should be required for the first two years, and that with it another should be selected; that on the expiration of the first two years all the groups should become elective; that a general and very strict preparatory examination should be held for admission to the four years' course, and that this examination should have reference to the course in general, like...
Prof. Ruskin delivers a course of lectures at Oxford during the present term, which, with others of the last term, will be published in book form, under the title of the "Arts of England...
...entrance examination in necessary and optional subjects, except for those who have passed such difficult examinations as the matriculation examination of the University of London and the Oxford and Cambridge local examinations for sen or students. The standard of these examinations is consistently kept up all through the scholastic term. But there is a lighter side to all these severe experiences. The fair undergraduates, for such they really are, are after all very human. There is always music going on indoors, and lawn tennis out of doors. There are "at homes," dancing, old students' dinners, and a choral society. They...
...regular business meeting for the spring term of members of the Harvard Total Abstinence League was held in Sever 13 last evening. The report of the secretary was read and accepted. Since the last business meeting, Jan. 17, twenty-eight names have been added to the constitution. There are now on the list of members ninety-five names. Article VII. of the constitution was amended so as to read as follows : "The expenses of the league shall be met as far as possible by voluntary contributions; but the executive committee may at their discretion levy an equal assessment not exceeding...