Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dear Sirs:-Cannot something be done to protect us from the wild hordes of the mucker tribe which invade the yard at all seasons of the day and night? The position of a student trying to grind in Holworthy, Stoughton or Hollis is a very trying one. Notwithstanding the fact that a cross-eyed copper drove a handful of us from the Common last year, because that was for the people and we had grounds of our own-a good half of Cambridge's male population-or perhaps a bad half-make the college yard the place for the daily...
...methods of protection of our rights. 1. If one in every twenty men in college would give a cent we could win one of the blue gentry who watch the ball games. The only difficulty is that the tormenters may be their own sons and heirs. 2. Renew the student-police which was in force about two years ago. I am ready to form one of twenty-five, to stand in the yard an hour with a bat and whang every mucker who dares to visit the yard...
...circulars signed by Professor Peabody which has recently been sent to a large number of students, including all the senior class, represent an effort to put into effect an idea which has occurred independently to many members of the University. Many senior have pieces of furniture which they do not care to take away with them, and which if sold, would bring nothing like their real value as measured by their capacity to do service in a student's room. A plan has been carefully arranged by which such articles can be loaned on proper terms to students who would...
...student of American Parentage, born in Florence, Italy, and educated there and in Germany to his sixteenth year, would be glad to find a paying position as tutor in Italian, French or German, conversational or otherwise. Address...
...service to rise and bow as the parson passed down the aisle. This practice of our Puritan ancestors was doubtless due to the reverence paid to superiors, and especially toministers in those days, and indeed the college authorities formulated rules specifying the exact conduct to be followed by a student in each particular on meeting a superior. One of the rules was as follows: "A student shall raise his hat at a distance of ten rods from the president, at eight rods from a professor, and at five rods from a tutor." In 1776, when Battell Chapel was first occupied...