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...arrival and departure of the professor, and advised instead the practice in vogue elsewhere of rising and standing during the 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...
...about as near the mark as such attempts usually come. Complimenting the publisher and compiler for the material appearance, let us look inside and see what new information it contains. First of all, each student interested in the combined growth and prosperity of the university turns to the general summary, and compares the figures with those of a year ago. The whole number of men enrolled for 1884-85, is found to be 1586, an increase of 64 over the year 1883-84. It is pleasing to notice also that this gain is quite generally distributed. There...
...died away in our freshman year. Still as we take our "casual glance," it might be well to remember that Wadsworth was once Washington's headquarters [hoc verumest], and that while he was there the shells from the British forts fell so dangerously near, that a removal of the General's quarters, further out to the old Longfellow house on Brattle street was made necessary; also that Massachusetts, as well as the old church opposite, was used in revolutionary times for quartering American troops. We pass up Brattle street to Appian Way, whose name is enough to invite our attention...
...result of the petition handed in by the students of the north entry of Thayer, to have the gas kept lighted all night has resulted in a general order to have the gas remain burning an hour longer every night throughout all the entries of the college buildings...
...about to descend the stairs leading to the ground floor, they were assaulted with orange peel, and showers of water by a body of hoodlumettes ensconced upon the stairs above. This assault was the signal for little less than a riot; hairpins were drawn on both sides, and a general scrimmage seemed unavoidable. The attacking party seemed to be overawed, however, by the superior numbers of their opponents, and withdrew in disorderly haste. With the exception of this incident the demonstration was a rousing success. The procession was an hour in passing a given point, -the dining hall, where...