Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Beta Kappa invitation dinner occurs to-night. Mr. Huddleston will act as toast-master...
...cribbing" or anything at all approaching to it, is promptly crushed out, Harvard will be justly liable to that offensive charge. It is a well known fact that, for a time extending far back of the present or previous generation, any student guilty of this mean and criminal act in the great English universities, has not only been subject to dismissal by the authorities, but has been "dropped," or in the English phrase, "put into Coventry" by his friends. But very few cases have occurred in a very long time, but those few have afforded stern and sad lessons...
...sport. It has been recommended in the past that a single scull contest should be instituted to rouse the students to a more active interest in rowing. This contest, if instituted, could also present an admirable means for training a large number of rowers who could act as an auxiliary force to the regular crews. Such a plan, while offering some difficulties, it is true, in the matter of shells, could not fail to reach more students than the present plan of exclusive crews. And in so far as it broadened, would improve one of our most popular sports...
...extremes of life we are much more susceptible to the injurious effects of cold than in the intervening period. "Draughts" act by cooling a part of the body through the medium of the skin...
...Overseers act upon the Chapel petition to-night. A report of their action will be published in to-morrow's paper...