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...entrance and exit of a favorite instructor. Student custom in Germany varies somewhat in this respect. The professor usually comes in after his audience is assembled and generally leaves before the others withdraw. In many places his coming and going receive no attention unless he be advanced in age, or particularly esteemed. Signs of respect are then shown either by rising and bowing or by the customary marks of applause. The students at lectures are quiet and attentive, and the late comer or the uneasy auditor is hissed. The benches are scratched and carved as academic benches are, the world...
...average age of the Yale freshman class is about 16 years and 1 month, and the average weight is 134 lbs. according to the averages recently taken by Mr. Seaver. Fifteen per cent. of the class use tobacco...
...undersigned, students at Harvard University, ask that attendance at morning chapel be made voluntary for students twenty-one years old, and optional, according to the wishes of the parents or guardians of students under twenty years of age...
...age now considered any bar to the active enjoyment of the game. Among the ranks of the "Old Etonians," and of other Clubs similarly constituted, may be seen players who get over the ground with an agility, and charge their opponents with a hardihood, perfectly astounding for their years. To watch some of these veterans limping out of a furious "maul," or rolling on the muddy turf, would give a stranger, no doubt, a high opinion of the vivacity and pluck of our countrymen ; but to one of philosophical bent-such a one, for example, as Mr. Max O'Rell...
...earnest teacher to keep up the flagging interest of his class, but from the general indifference it is quite evident that there is a lack of system in the art of teaching, and until that is remedied we must be content with what advantages we have. Still in this age of progression such an important fact ought not to pass unnoticed. The elective system has been one great reform in the line of study, and now the old system of instructing ought to be changed and improved...