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...care was taken to see that the students had seats. The trouble is an old one, however, and will be the rule this year rather than the exception if steps are not taken to remedy it. Preachers have already been announced in the calendar who will be sure to attract immense audiences, and the students should be given first chance on the evenings when these men preach...
...notice that Prince Serge Wolkonsky, who delighted so many of the students by his lecture Wednesday night, is to give another Ircture in Sanders Theatre Monday night. This time his theme will be secular rather than religious, and the broader field with which he will deal will probably attract enough more people to justify the change of place of holding the lecture from Sever 11 to Sanders...
...Magazine was, of course, primarily intended for the alumni; but it is not for that reason less interesting to the average undergraduate. The interests of the graduate are necessarily with the present of the University as well as with the past, and in consequence the subjects which attract his attention are generally equally interesting to the student body. Important questions which the college papers as a rule treat crudely and unsatisfactorily, are discussed in the Magazine by men of maturer intelligence, whose opinions carry weight with them; and it may fairly be said that the pages of the Magazine afford...
...only did his impressive sermons attract the students to the chapel, but his overflowing kindness drew them to his home. He was pastor as well as preacher The students felt that in him they had a friend and counsellor in whom they might confide and trust implicitly. Dr. Peabody was the most popular instructor of the college, and the cheers for him at class-day were always the heartiest and the longest of the occasion. Indeed even to the present time, classes whose members had never been under his instruction still cheered for the venerable doctor...
...annual report for 1891-92 Professor John Trowbridge calls attention to the increased attendance in the laboratory courses in Physics. It has been the policy of the department to perfect the systematic courses of laboratory instruction rather than to offer lecture courses which may serve to attract only a momentary attention to the subject. In the year 1891-92 there were 265 students in the Physics courses while this year there are 324. The growth of the laboratory courses suggests that portions of the space now occupied by cabinets of apparatus, may have to be adapted to laboratory work...