Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great praise cannot be accorded the action of the Overseers and Corporation last January, when they abolished the office of Secretary of the College, and substituted therefor that of Secretary of the University. The increased powers connected with the new office and the wisdom of the change have been made apparent in the management of petitions for absence and in other ways, but what we particularly wish to notice, is the prospect for helping students in their efforts to obtain a livelihood during the summer months, and further in finding permanent situations for men who are about to leave...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - Since the freshman game with Yale on Wednesday. I have heard many adverse criticisms on the action of the freshman class and the conduct of the nine. Although I heartily coinside with your correspondents of yesterday and the day before in condemning the action of the nine's supporters, still I see no reason why the members or any member of the nine itself should be run drown, simply because they did not succeed in defeating their opponents. I suppose it is natural for a nine to be condemned because it has suffered reverses...
...affirm that the loss of the game on Saturday was the occasion of our criticism of the freshmen and their conduct is an assumption which ought not to be made by any one unless he be gifted with that extreme insight into the processes of mental action, which enables one to perceive clearly the line of thought which is being carried on in a mind other than one's own. We do not believe that our correspondent possesses this insight. If a year ago the seeds of the evil which is now being reaped were sown, it is the oversight...
...faculty of Brown have favorably considered the students protest against the withdrawal of the base-ball team from the Intercollegiate League, and will suspend action for the present...
...Harvard boys say they have a poor crew to represent American oarsmen, and complain of the action of the faculty, which prohibits them from hiring a professional "coach." Then, again, the Cambridge crew is probably the most formidable collection of amateur oarsmen in the world, and it would seem that nothing but the very best training of the very best men in Harvard should be pitted against such famous champions...