Word: actionalism
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Undergraduates - almost every student being present - met on Monday evening in Massachusetts, to take action upon the death of Professor Agassiz. The meeting was called to order by Mr. Mackintosh, '74. Mr. Richmond, '74, was elected Chairman, and Mr. Curtis, '75, Secretary. A committee was appointed, consisting of Mr. Merwin, '74, Mr. Canfield, '75, Mr. Amory, '76, and Mr. Tower, '77, to prepare resolutions. Mr. Goodwin, '74, Mr. F. R. Appleton, '75, Mr. Curtis, '76, and Mr. A. L. Lowell, '77, were appointed a Committee to provide for the proper draping of the Chapel and its decoration with suitable flowers...
...taking an extended view of the necessary conditions of a successful life, and which leads him to place a barrier between himself and his associates, ought to be strenuously guarded against by all such, and he should endeavor, by a more friendly association with his friends, to call into action those hidden springs of feeling which all possess to a greater or less degree, needing only culture to form the strong ties of friendships which are as oases along the otherwise desert path of life...
...decided manner to certain statements relating to college matters which have lately appeared in the Boston Advertiser. We refer especially to the Advertiser of last Wednesday, in which, among other statements, - none of which, even if true, should have been published in any but a college paper, - the preliminary action of the Senior Societies in reference to the class elections was given...
...take possession of the caucuses in Cambridge, and swamp the regular politicians of the First Ward, and yet it is not merely possible, but quite likely, that such an attempt would be successful, to say nothing of the benefits sure to accrue to the ward from such action. Wherein lies the difference between an appeal to students and an appeal to the "educated," who are, after all, only students who have graduated from college, and forgotten much if not most of what they have learned there, who cannot act so much as a unit, and who are not so easily...
...have received a communication bearing rather hard on the two Sophomore societies, the Institute and the Athenaeum. It accuses them of electing men simply because they possess musical talent, and without regard to their literary ability. We have received many communications, since the paper was started, criticising the action of societies in various ways, and we have uniformly declined to publish them, for these reasons: in the first place, it has generally been very evident that the writer, not being a member of the society which he criticised, knew very little about that which he discussed; and then...