Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Well, Bob," replied his chum after a pause, "it seems to me you are an example of a class of fellows here to whom, on account of their inactivity and lack of interest in everything after they have got into the societies and clubs, is largely due the defeats which Harvard has been receiving for the last three or four years...
...article entitled the "College Bible" which appeared in the last number of the Advocate, the insidious and baleful influence of the New York Nation was alleged to account for the so-called trait of Harvard indifference." This twofold challenge to the student and the Nation appeals to a state of things in College and to an iconoclastic tendency in the Nation which fail to reveal themselves, I think, to the observer who is conversant in any true sense with the phenomena in question...
...thoroughly opposed to such proceedings as the Freshmen themselves could possibly be. We feel sure, then, that we shall meet with the approval of all concerned in the matter, when we solicit from any Freshman who has been forced to submit to any indignity whatever a full account of the whole affair, which we engage to publish as soon as its truth is satisfactorily proved...
...three reasons for the non-representation of the University of Vermont at Saratoga - the fact of their not belonging to the Association of American Colleges being of course of no account, as they undoubtedly would be received into it with open arms upon the expression of the slightest wish to belong to it - which are set forth in the conclusion of the letter must be satisfactory both to themselves and every one else: for if they are too busy, that is their own business; if they are too poor, every one will allow that Saratoga is not the place...
...School was threatened with financial difficulties. This at first occasioned no serious alarm to the Trustees, as they had been led to expect that Mr. Anderson, its founder, would look out for the School for three years from 1874; on the presentation to him of last year's account, however, the Trustees discovered that no more assistance was to be expected from Mr. Anderson...