Word: adjournment
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...clock and on Wednesday afternoons at three o'clock, beginning on Saturday, May 4, and closing June 22. The class will assemble each day in the lecture room of the Bussey Institution, where a review will be given of certain groups of trees and shrubs. It will then adjourn to the plantations and the nurseries of the Arboretum for an informal outdoor study of the plants. It is not proposed that the instruction given in these meetings shall be technical, and a knowledge of descriptive botany is not essential for persons who wish to follow them. The intention...
...resulted in a tie, two to two. Pennsylvania proposed in succession the rescinding of the undergraduate rule, the substitution for it of the rules adopted by Harvard and Pennsylvania, and the removal of it from the playing rules; but all these measures were defeated, and the meeting had to adjourn without coming to any agreement...
...Forbes and Pierce; and Chase, Hancock and Johnson, were sent in search of the three officers. Emmons and Caswell appeared and made a few remarks. Cheers followed for the successful candidates, and the men seemed ready to wait until Wrenn should appear, but Chairman Rantoul thought it best to adjourn the meeting...
Each member has it in his own hands to compel an answer to this question: first, by coming to the meeting tonight; secondly, even if it is necessary to adjourn to another time, by refusing to break up until the affairs of the society have been thoroughly and publicly overhauled...
...will be of unusual importance. Yet the evening chosen is the date of the Symphony concert, of the semi annual meeting of the Harvard Union, and of several smaller meetings. Worse than this, the Co-operative Society has engaged the same hall as the Harvard Union, and must therefore adjourn before half-past seven, when the latter society will take possession. Since the officers of the Society can not be ignorant that their time will thus be limited to less than half an hour, it would seem that they must have favorable reports to make, and expect little discussion. Unfortunately...