Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...director of the gymnasium and a prominent medical authority in Cambridge. Its report, whatever it may be, will receive careful consideration from the faculty, and its recommendation will undoubtedly have great weight. Two branches of our athletics will receive especial attention, rowing and foot-ball. In regard to what action the faculty will take about a paid coach for our crews there is much speculation. But it is generally believed that the faculty will not retreat from its position taken last year. There is, however, almost a universal opinion that permission to play foot-ball with our rival colleges will...
...they may be so influenced by seasonable ambition that something new may be recorded of them, that they have actually considered our request and have recognized its force. Then there is the conference committee. The advice of Demosthenes would be a good new year's resolution for this body - "action, action, action." At the risk of referring to a prickly "chestnut," we would ask the faculty to turn with new year's vim to the marking system. Toleration of this evil has been their policy too long. Let 1886 see some improvement in Harvard's back-woods musty method...
...change the average gain in time by the students is nearly three-quarters of an hour each day. We sincerely trust that this privilege will not be abused, and that it will accomplish its purpose. We extend our thanks on behalf of the students to the faculty for their action, exhibiting as it does the evident desire of the college government to conform in their duties with the general welfare of the students...
...stated in a small sized nutshell. As long as Yale is governed in the religious spirit of its foundation, the progressive element of the Alumni will have no voice in the management. It is for the Corporation to decide this point; the Alumni can do nothing until such action is taken as will give them a voice in the deliberations of the Board. - Acta Columbiana...
...meeting on Tuesday night, it was voted to form a University Gun Club at Yale. A committee of three was chosen to draw up a plan of action, and a second meeting will be held in a few days to decide on Harvard's challenge...