Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...That resolutions passed by a majority vote of the student members be reported to the faculty by the chairman, who shall subsequently report to the committee of conference the action taken by the faculty...
...subject of athletics will be one with which this conference will deal, and it is hoped that such careful suggestions will be made by the representatives of the students that many of the present seeming evils will be remedied. But we feel sure that whatever action is taken on this subject, after a meeting of the conference committee, a feeling of satisfaction and submission will pervade the college, inasmuch as the student side of the question has been heard and carefully weighed. The expressed intention of the committee from the faculty to widen the field of debate in the meeting...
...trouble is, that in estimating college graduates, business men, as well as some others, are apt to pick out, as a standard, the few cheap characters which every college sends out, and which neither education nor anything short of re-creation could fit for a prominent sphere of action...
...With the growth of this institution the officers have had more and more responsibility to bear, and the fact that the Hall is at present in a good condition should not cause the members to forget that at any moment emergencies may arise that call for prompt and decided action. Good representative men are needed to maintain the success that has been achieved, and now is the time to see that such men are brought forward as candidates. Let each member of the association hand the auditor the name of some efficient man who will serve as a candidate...
This is the title of a very entertaining work on horsemanship by Col. Theodore A. Dodge, U. S. Army. The most notewortey feature of the book are the plates, which are phototype reproductions from photographs of Patroclus, the author's famous horse, taken in action by Baldwin Coolidge. Of these the author says in his preface, "their origin lay in the bebelief that a fine gaited horse could be instantaneously photographed, and still show the agreeable action which all horse-lovers admire, and have been habituated to see drawn by artists, instead of the ungainly positions usually resulting from...