Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the mass-meeting in Holden last evening was eminently wise, and will without doubt meet with the approbation of the students at large. The Conference Committee is doing good work, but there is little doubt that it is the will of the students that a committee which is elected for conference only shall not have executive power. It may be urged that the basis of representation pursued in the choice of the conference committee will be unjust to the lower classes, if followed in the election of a committee like the yard committee, which will be brought into...
...cannot see that any harm will ensue from having bonfires in the yard upon great, occasions, yet can the college afford to make a universal principle of such action; for who shall say when the occasion warrants more than the usual firework display? Shall it be left to the judgment of the excited victors, or shall our noble conference committee post a bulletin to the effect that "If Harvard wins to-day the victory will be worthy of a huge bonfire." Yet we are undergraduates but once, and let us celebrate while we may. Surely the freshmen on Wednesday night...
Accordingly the student members of the Conference Committee met on Monday, May 17th, to consider what action it was advisable for them to take in answer to the faculty's request. It was the general opinion of those present that the vote of the faculty was not consistent with the unanimous recommendation of the committee; that if the student members of the Conference Committee complied with the faculty's request they would assume the position of agents of the faculty, and bring about nothing more than a modification of the old proctor system; that if a committee of students were...
...sorry to hear reports of dissatisfaction with the action of one of the class nines in the series which is now being played. Bulldozing is not generally considered as a part of a Harvard man's education, but the action of Monday surely tended very much in that direction. The honor of winning the class championship is hardly worth the odium which is likely to attend that event, if gained in the same way as was Monday's game...
...buildings being of yellowish marble, shaded and stained with age. Above the roofs of the houses rose the storied Acropolis. All the conventional rules were observed. Characters coming from the city entered on the left hand side. Those coming from other places entered at the right. The use of action as well as declamation, however, was a departure from ancient customs which made the play interesting...