Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of scrub elevens are in process of form action...
...yesterday's CRIMSON, are such as should meet with the approval of every member of the class who desires fair methods of election and a short and harmonious meeting. In appointing the president of the Harvard Union chairman of the meeting, the committee have acted wisely, thus following the action of last year's committee and establishing a good precedent which we hope will be imitated by all subsequent classes. We heartily second the request of the committee that, whatever the outcome of the elections, the expressed wishes of the majority of the class should be respected...
...simple mode of preventing ink from damaging metallic pens, is to throw either into the inkstand or the bottle in which the ink is kept, a few nails, broken bits of steel pens (not varnished) or any other pieces of iron not rusted. The corrosive action of the acid contained in the ink is expended on the iron introduced...
...engaging in them fitfully and unintelligently, fail of the good they might otherwise receive, while the majority, content with merely looking on and applauding, get no real benefit whatever from them. The question is worth considering whether the time has not come for this university to take some decisive action toward providing itself with a gymnasium of its own, and not merely with the hired and limited advantages of one in the city; and whether some provision ought not to be made for such institutions in hygiene and practical physical training as shall not only secure to our students...
They go to uphold a good old college custom, they attach no political significance to their action, they go because they want the demonstration made by Harvard to be a good one, one in which all may take part. For these various reasons we regret the action of the C. and H. Club and call upon the students to have pride enough in the procession of Harvard College to refuse the invitation, swallow their disappointment and go with the majority in the Republican ranks, in accordance with the good old custom...