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...number of undergraduates in Tufts is as follows: fifteen seniors, sixteen juniors, sixteen sophomores, and seventeen freshmen. Besides there are six candidates for the degree of master of arts and one special student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/4/1884 | See Source »

...course of his remarks he expressed the following views on the warfare now going on between the classics and the sciences: Five-and-twenty years ago, when the hours of study were fewer and the examinations less numerous, a boy had far greater opportunity of following up any special task than he had now. Subjects which did not tell had now no chance. It was very necessary, therefore, that they should ask themselves whether they were following a wise system or not. A young man might pass creditably, nay, with distinction, through school and college, and find himself when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HIGHER EDUCATION. | 12/21/1883 | See Source »

...Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament. Special subject: Hebrew History (continued). Professor Lyon. Upper Divinity Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/21/1883 | See Source »

Here and there one meets today a few men who are a little belated in their work, who are still grinding through some stiff or special examination, and who are in cap and gown, and these lend a most pleasing variety to the general quaintness-almost weirdness-of the place and day. For really one has the feeling of living in the middle ages, looking upon these old, gray, time-worn, moss-covered edifices and meeting here and there in cloisters and in other unlooked-for places these sombre-seeming youths under these mortar-board caps and in these long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD AT COMMEMORATION. | 12/21/1883 | See Source »

There will be no more recitations in English 5 until after the semis. Professor Hill has assigned special hours in which he will meet the members of the section individually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/20/1883 | See Source »