Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Senior recitation in Moral Philosophy. Professor: "What is an act of will called?" Senior: "A volition, from volo, I will." Professor: "Exactly. Cicero says: 'Voluntas est, quoe quid cum ratione desiderat.' What is that?" Senior (triumphantly): "That is Latin, sir." - [Cynic...
...Harvard-Columbia race will take place next Wednesday at 10.15 A. M. Mr. Frank G. Brown of New York, and formerly of the Nassau Boat Club, will act as referee...
...college rooms for class day purposes and those desiring the use of basement rooms for caterers, are requested to notify the janitors before June 15, so that the necessary arrangements may be made. Students will be held responsible for any expense to the college caused by any act or neglect of the caterers employed by them...
...itself up above the wisdom of the people. It will be used as an argument to favor the governor's reelection and to injure the college. But we fancy that the governor's vote will not be increased nor the college hurt to any appreciable extent by the act of yesterday. Nobody ever supposed that the authorities of Harvard College regarded his excellency as a fit man for governor, and they certainly deserve credit rather than denunciation for expressing their minds. - [Advertiser...
...Harvard's loss of "popularity" the Boston Herald says: There is a great deal of idle talk about some supposed loss of popularity which is to accrue to Harvard College because its overseers, acting in the performance of the duties of their office, have not thought it proper to confer the degree of doctor of laws upon Governor Butler. We do not suppose that the overseers gave any special thought to the popularity or the unpopularity of their act. They had a simple duty to perform, and they performed it; and to suppose that the college is to lose...