Word: acting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...strong efforts will be made this year to go back to the old way of saying farewell to college life and college friends. Whether such a return is either possible or desirable, is as yet an unsettled question; and, with a view to enable the Class of '78 to act advisedly in the matter, we invite communications from all interested in this subject...
...moving to the Bosphorus to restore, as I trust, the cross to the citadel of Sophia. I see a magnificent highway on which humanity is marching to her high and noblest destiny; and you, young men, are the persons that I call upon, to let us live with you. act with you, and encourage you, cheer you on, in order that you may accomplish for your country a name...
...judge for themselves as to the expediency of playing billiards and smoking; and the infantile regulations by which they are controlled are out of place and ridiculous. If, on the other hand, such rules are appropriate, the students must cease to aspire to the title of "men," when they act and are treated like boys just entering their teens...
...McMaster will continue to act as Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Professor Burr, who was recently elected to fill that chair, having been induced to remain at the Troy Polytechnic School...
...each man write the secretary at least every two years, and from these letters let his "history" be collated by the secretary. It is absurd with such large classes as we have now to attempt individual lives of every member, and so many men see this folly and act on it, that the class-books now are very incomplete and unsatisfactory indeed; with less attempt more could be really done. With a small class the old system worked fairly well, with the classes of to-day it is effete and absurd; yet each class will knock its knees before this...