Word: working
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...decennial reunion of the class of '77 of Princeton, it was decided to present the college with a biological library. The twelve thousand dollars necessary was subscribed immediately, and the work was begun at once. The building was completed last June, too late to be formally opened before the next term...
Princeton has long felt the need of a laboratory for instruction in vertebrate anatomy and embryology, as the students taking the special courses in vertebrate morphology, embryology and histology have been greatly hampered by the very meagre accommodations for laboratory work. Three members of the class of '77 have during the last seven years been appointed professors in different branches of biology, and the class naturally took a great deal of interest in the welfare of this department. The members therefore decided to build a laboratory and give it to their alma mater...
...these measures have been steps toward a goal which all must acknowledge to be desirable of attainment. All have marked the change form the narrow atmosphere and petty restrictions of a school in which the result is to extract from the pupil a fixed amount of work and exact from him a strict obedience to a body of minute regulations, to the broad life of a true university, in which great privileges are offered to those who will avail themselves of them, while in return each student is required to conform himself to such regulations only as are necessary...
...moving spirit, it has been observed that those who were in a position to note the effect of the changes were unanimous, or nearly so, in the opinion that a great improvement was being wrought. No signs have appeared of any deterioration in the quality or quantity of work done...
...received a decided blow by the loss of Captain Griffing. Besides him seven other members of last year's team have left college, so that to be able to wrest the championship from Princeton and to bring it back to its natural home all the candidates will have to work their best and help the captain to their utmost abilities...