Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princetonian copies the following from the New York World: "Few men spend more than $4,000 during a term at Harvard, and, as a rule, expenses are lighter than at any other college...
...social life at that college. The difference in the college life of an Amherst student and that of a Harvard student is very noticeable, as one reads the essay. The writer begins with an account of the daily life of an average student, following him through a Wednesday in term time, and leaving him in the evening seated with some friends at a table in "Frank's" the restaurant patronized by the college men, which must correspond somewhat to our "Adam's." "Passing from the favorite restaurant to the regular boarding clubs we shall find little ofinterest. All the clubs...
...secret societies are not to be confounded with class societies, for they are different in every respect. At Amherst a man joins a society in his freshman year, and continues his connection with it during the four years. Many attempts have been made to establish class societies; but their term of existence is generally short. At present there is no such society in college, if we except the Phi Beta Kappa, which is in no sense social. The four-year societies are eight in number, and enroll as members more than three-fourths of the college. As the most able...
MISCELLANEOUS.The Library in Gore Hall is open Sundays during term-time from 1 p. m. till sunset for the use of members of the University only...
...correct the statements of the news papers about the cost of living at Harvard. They are far from the truth. I can give my expenses within ten dollars, I am sure: freshman year, almost exactly $400; junior year, about $600; senior year, $750. Scholarships have always paid my term bills, and some thing more...