Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advisory committee have fully appreciated the work of Mr. Bancroft in behalf of the crew and of boating interests at Cambridge. But the members of the committee have on several occasions unanimously criticised the action of Mr. Bancroft, both as adviser of the crew and as couth, and this has evidently been considered an undue interference on the part of the committee by your correspondent who does gross injustice to Mr. Watson...
...Nothing is so strong a reminder in ordinary times of the execrable habit of mud-slinging and vilification, now so common a feature of campaign paper warfare. The articles which have appeared from time to time in the Herald, not only on the subject of boating but on the action of the faculty committee, have contained so many personal allusions of a disagreeable nature, that we feel called upon in the name of the students to protest. We do not take this action as an attempted defence of the advisory committee or any one else, but as exponents...
Some time ago the CRIMSON published the letters of the various committees in regard to the further employment of Col. Bancroft. At that time we were decidedly opposed to the dismissal of Col. Bancroft, and deplored what seemed to us the hasty action of the athletic committee. Since then we have had no reason to modify our opinion, which we think is that of the majority of the students. We sincerely hope that, after a full discussion of this matter, the committee may be induced to make some concessions, as was done in the report on the abolition of foot...
...happen to be at loggerheads, one side must give way; and this time the committee's turn to yield has come. If only as a matter of courtesy, however, the letter should be acted upon at once. The boat club ought to have a meeting, everyone should go and action be taken. Either the undergraduates there assembled must yield and put themselves in accord with the committee and refuse to accept the resignation, or, if they persist in maintaining their present position, which seems more than probable, they must do the reverse, ask the committee to give way themselves...
...faculty at the meeting this evening will take action upon the foot ball question...