Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Several complaints have recently been received concerning the actions of the bursar. There has long been felt throughout the college a dissatisfaction at the conduct of this gentleman toward the students. Many of his acts have bordered slightly on the tyrannical with no rules to support them. It is true that in past years, and even at present, perhaps, some of the students have irritated the bursar by their strenuous efforts to acquire rooms despite his efforts to the contrary. Notwithstanding this, the innocent should not be made to pay the penalty due the guilty. At least there should...
...Resolved, that this conference of college presidents, principals and teachers of preparatory schools earnestly appeal to the colleges for concerted action on their part in order to secure uniformity in requisition in all subjects, parts of subjects and authors, in which they have a common requirement...
...senior class to hold a caucus and to perfect an organization to counteract in some degree the so-called "influence" of the large societies in the election of class-day officers. While I by no means wish to imply that the present state of affairs demands such concerted action, I wish through your columns to impress on non-society men the importance of a full attendance at the election. This not only would tend to remove the idea that has become gradually fixed in the past, that the large absence of non-society men shows their hopelessness in contending against...
...every Thursday evening at 7 o'clock as the office of the director of the Hemenway gymnasium. The committee will be glad to meet at this hour and place any officer or member of any athletic organization who may have business to present or may desire information concerning the action of the committee. All matters, as far as possible, should previously be presented to the secretary in writing. But the committee desires especially the oral consideration of questions relating to athletic interests, and is ready to hold extra meetings for this purpose if necessary. The members of the committee...
...notice was taken of the extremely ragged condition which this would occasion in the electives of those whose work it affected. An equal amount of frankness was displayed in wholly ignoring the announcements of the elective pamphlet concerning the composition courses. The cause which was given for this action is the same as that which has been assigned for many other slight idiosyncrasies of our famous university. It is the cause of the signal failure of the library to enlighten our minds after sunset; the cause which has occasioned those ever recurring topics of conversation, the pumps, the state...