Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-Your editorial this morning, following in the wake of the Herald and Advertiser comments on the action of the Harvard club of Washington without any knowledge of the facts in the case. Please allow me, as a member of the club, to point out the important details that you have omitted...
...adjourned meeting of the overseers was held on Wednesday, and the principal business discussed was the printing of the quinquennial catalogue, The next number will be published this year, and the action taken by the board will materially alter the appearance of this graduates' catalogue in the future. The committee which had been appointed to consider the expediency of printing the names of the graduates in English instead of Latin, reported favorably for the change, and the following motion proposed by Mr. Sargent was carried, and the motion accepted : "That the board of overseers advise and recommend that the Quinquennial...
Princeton has started a university laundry, thereby throwing out of employment many resident washwomen. The action was rendered necessary by the prevalence of diphtheria in the place...
...daily papers are to some extent commenting on the ill-judged action of the Washington Harvard Club in refusing to allow certain members of the alumni to join the club, the only ostensible reason for their refusal being the fact that the candidates in question were colored. In other respects they were admitted to be of sufficient merit to be enrolled among the august assembly which thus sets itself up to judge its fellow men. One of the rejected candidates was the gentleman graduated last June, who read a commencement part on the history of his race since...
...that a body of Harvard graduates brought together for the express purpose of fostering and renewing the pleasant reminiscences of college life, would not take such a backward step as our representatives seem to have done. We do not wonder that the outside press comment unfavorably upon this strange action. Harvard claims to open itself to all, to offer the advantages of study to each and all alike without distinction. If this be the case, a body of men whose very organization looks towards the advancement of Harvard and her interests certainly make a great mistake in reviving a race...