Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...back his assertions, we cannot help laughing. The "victorious" candidate has finished reading his thesis and the professors talk more Latin at him, examine him in his "Neberfaecher" (side-studies) and make him the happy possessor of a degree. There upon the whole party, professors as well as students, adjourn at a banquet given by the smiling neophyte in the ranks of profession...
...positively inhuman in the persons who are responsible for this condition of affairs to let things go on as they have been going. A few more experiences like that of yesterday, and the students, on going into this ice-house, may be compelled by unbearable cold to adjourn in a body without waiting for the formality of the usual morning services...
...indulging in its glowing delineations of the all powerful conference committee, and while we feel a just pride in the work of the committee, the conference committee of one of our nearest neighbors is doing its best to discuss "some points of French grammar" and to pass motions for adjournment. The conference committee of Williams is exhibiting a marvelous propensity for wasting time, and each meeting of the committee is a repition of the futile efforts of the last to accomplish something. It is simply apalling to consider the amount of learned thought which is displayed in the ever recurring...
...dispense with the presence of the upper classmen was rebuked by a young gentlemen who gallantly moved to "extend the hospitalities of the room to the upper classmen." Whenever the interest seemed to flag several gentleman were kind enough to add fuel to the fire by moving to adjourn, and the fire blazed up, much to the amusement of all and the distress of the presiding officer...
...office, Prof. Allen's advanced section in Freshman Greek and the two sections in Political Economy I., were assigned to the same room, Sever 11, at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. As the freshmen were first on the ground, the members of Pol. Econ. I. were compelled to adjourn to Harvard I. Different arrangements will probably be made in time for the next recitation...