Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Foot-ball will receive attention immediately. On Saturday Captain R. W. Corwin will be found at the athletic field, with his corps of men ready for action. Boyne, formerly of '87, has been in town for several days, and will coach the foot-ball team. Hazing, which formed a never failing source of amusement to the upper classes, is becoming a thing of the past, and will undoubtedly be laid away on the shelf with the bully club, presented to the college last commencement...
...wish the preachers in charge every success in their work, and feel assured that each success will be secured to them. It is, moreover, an imperative duty upon the part of the students to see that success assured through their own voluntary action...
...meeting of the undergraduate Anniversary Committee was held last evening and decisive action was taken upon a plan to be submitted by the committee to each class for its ratification. This plan will be placed before the senior class at its first meeting, next Tuesday evening, the junior class on Thursday, probably, and the sophomore class on Friday. It will be submitted to the freshmen at their first annual meeting. It is desired that the entire university will lend the most earnest support as the plan calls for the unanimous and enthusiastic ratification of every student to insure success...
...suggestion is, that the faculty forbid intercollegiate contests on the part of Harvard students; and (pending this action) that parents forbid their sons to subscribe to the particular organizations by which such contests are now kept...
...speaking of Columbia's recent action in regard to the admission of women, Harpers Weekly says: The young Doctor and Bachelor, as she stood before the president and faculty and trustees and received her diploma, was a harbinger of advancing civilization, and of the constant enlightenment which makes this age brighter than its predecessors. Her presence on that academic stage meant that every opportunity of generous development shall be opened to women, and it showed that if Columbia College, cautious, wise, and much deliberating, does not refuse her honors to trained and proved scholarship and intellectual attainment merely because they...