Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...announce to those interested in the reading-room that the success of the project is now assured. The fact that the Harvard Union has appointed a committee to take charge of the matter is a guarantee that the reading-room will be established, and we think that the action of the Union will be much appreciated. The advantages of a reading-room are undeniably great, and we do not doubt that the reading-room will prove a great success...
CHRISTIAN BRETHKEN. Business of especial importance will be brought before the Society of Christian Brethren for action at the meeting this evening. It is business upon which past as well as present members have a right to vote. Every member of the Society is urged to be present...
...they play in New York on Thanksgiving or four or five days earlier than that, no one, except themselves, is able to see. If Yale persists in her course, it will look as though it was fear of Princeton rather than support of a great principle which influences such action...
There was early an idea that the action of many supernatural forces would be discovered by the powerful eye of the microscope; and the microscopist of the last century was regarded, by his servants and others, as somehow in league with that devil, whose discovery was due to the savant and the humble "flea glass" of the century before...
...severely criticized. For the college-man who endeavors to make capital for himself or for his paper by gross misrepresentations of college events, no criticism is too sharp, no condemnation too severe. A man, who can so forget his own honor as to bring by any wilful action any stain on the good name of his own college, ought to be regarded as a source of harm to the college world, and to be so treated by his fellow students. Such men, we regret to say, exist in our college...