Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should never be a disagreement between the committee and the under-graduates. When the two do happen to be at loggerheads, one side must give way; and this time the committee's turn to yield has come. If only as a matter of courtesy, however, the letter should be acted upon at once. The boat club ought to have a meeting, everyone should go and action be taken. Either the undergraduates there assembled must yield and put themselves in accord with the committee and refuse to accept the resignation, or, if they persist in maintaining their present position, which seems...
...think that this tribute to the man whose memory is so dear to all of us should come from those English cousins across the Atlantic whose appreciation of him as a poet was almost, if not fully, as great as that of his own friends and countrymen. The act is only another instance of the growing feeling of friendship which is fast uniting the two great English speaking nations into one great commonwealth of letters. Let us hope that a fitting position may be found in which to place this new memorial bust. Where could a better place be found...
Everyone remembers the reply Polonius makes to Hamlet, who asked him if he did not at one time act in the University. Polonius not only admits it but is rather proud of it. "I did enact Julius Caesar, I was killed i' the capital." It is recorded that Queen Elizabeth attended amateur performances of the students at Oxford and at Cambridge, and was highly pleased with the endeavors of the striplings. At that time it was the custom, when any distinguished personage paid a visit to the Universities, to entertain him in royal style, and the representation of some...
...Lathrop is now working hard in person on the floor of the gymnasium, to train up a number of men who will be fit to act as leaders of the new squads...
Hazing at Union College is over for this year. Four sophomores were detected in the act of placing a freshman on a Chinese idol standing behind the college and were promptly suspended, but were reinstated on condition that each one in the class would sign an agreement not to do any more hazing...