Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Leonidas La C. Hamilton, delivered a very interesting lecture in Lyceum Hall last evening, on the "New Science." The lecture was a practical statement of a new theory by which the speaker is to explain the action of gravity, in a forthcoming work...
...expulsion, by the Director of the gymnasium, of the trainers who were present at the first winter meeting, was a most commendable action. Our only regret is that the action was not taken sooner. If the winter sports cannot be held without the introduction of Muldoonism, then they were better not held at all. Trainers have their places without doubt, but they do not belong in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Contests in sparring among gentlemen, to be respectable, must be free from the vulgarity of professionalism, and Harvard men are presumably gentlemen. We do not know by what means the trainers...
...petitions for voluntary attendance at morning prayers from the college at large, the Law School and O. K. Society, were brought up and read before the Corporation of the college at its meeting in Boston yesterday. Further than the reading and the referring the petitions to the Overseers, no action was taken. The Board of Overseers hold their next stated meeting Wednesday, March 17, and at that time the prayer petitions will be read and discussed...
...Civil Service Reform League of Bloomington, Illinois, lately roused much interest in its cause by offering to the students of Indiana University prizes for the best essays in Civil Service Reform. The action of this reform league seems in many ways calculated to bring about the ends at which it aims. For people are fond of telling us that we, who are now undergraduates, will soon be prominent in American politics and journalism. If it be true that we are soon to play an important part, it is needful that we should play it well; that we should be fully...
...dressing, especially not for putting on such articles of apparel as a hat, an overcoat, and a cane. It is not only ungentlemanly, but it is unfair for any one to occupy a bath room longer than absolutely necessary; the accommodations are already inadequate to the demand, and any action tending to make this inadequacy greater is censurable. Men in college, possessing a spirit of good sense and genuine humanity, would welcome some rules at the gymnasium to limit the time for using a bath-room. But better than rules, however strenuously enforced, would be the general effort of those...