Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About twenty bicyclists, members of the Massachusetts Bicycle and the New York Citizen's Clubs, visited Harvard yesterday...
...Lowell Citizen notes that along about this time the woods in the vicinity of the various institutions of learning resound with such phrases as: "Far back in the palmy days of the Roman empire, as Gibbons tells us" - "I invite you to go back with me in thought" - "And now, classmates" - etc. Commencement time is coming...
...students.) What is needed in these departments is an increase in the amount of instruction, instructors of learning and reputation, and courageous, fairminded discussion of topics of the day. The scientist or philosopher must not be allowed to lose sight of the fact that he is an American citizen...
...this supposes that you realize the position; that you fill up the measure of the opportunities; that you keep in view at once the professional life, the citizen life and the life of intellectual tastes. The mere professional man, however prosperous, can not be a power in society, as the Arts' graduate may become. His leisure occupations are all of a lower stamp. He does not participate in the march of knowledge. He must be aware of his incompetence to judge for himself in the greater questions of our destiny; his part is to be a follower...
...democrat. It is a common remark in the college that there a man is estimated at his real worth. and all pretense and conceit is covered with ridicule. During the past fifteen years a wonderful change in the undergraduate life has taken place. The sleep of the Cambridge citizen was once broken by the uproarious singing of students in the streets. Now it is very rare to hear any boisterous midnight singing - such out-door singing as there is being confined to the college yard, where it seems appropriate and pleasant. The old tricks upon property are now unheard...