Word: affaire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undergraduate committee having the affair in charge is composed of: J. C. Fairchild, R. H. Hallowell, F. S. Hoppin and C. W. Norton...
...English C. Scraping of feet, rattling of papers, useless and insulting laughter are participated in at each lecture, much to the discredit of all the men in the course. Cat calls are bad enough, but when it comes to putting cats themselves in the instructor's chair, the affair becomes very childish indeed. The constant disrespect shown by the members of this section is a reflection upon the class of ninety-seven and upon the University as a whole. Strangers visiting this course would receive a very low impression of Harvard and Harvard men in general. It is the place...
...games which were postponed Monday afternoon were run off yesterday. In the 220 yards dash the handicapping was too heavy for the scratch men, and Dorman with 17 yards won easily. For second place, however, the contest was more exciting. The pole vault proved to be a very interesting affair and again the handicap proved too much for the scratch man. Out of justice to Kershaw L. S., however, it should be said that if it had not been so dark he would undoubtedly have won first place as his previous records have been far higher than he needed...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology gets $20,000 and Tufts College $10,000 by the will of Thomas O. P. Burnham, the Boston second-hand bookseller, who had a bookstall for so many years under the Old South Church. On the outside, at least, his bookstall was a most unpretentious affair, out of which it seemed possible that a thrifty person might get a modest living; but Mr. Burnham found more in it than that, for his estate exceeded $600,000,- all left for charitable or for public uses...
...University students and the public are invited to the address on "College Graduates and Public affair," by Herbert Welsh of Philadelphia, in the Fogg Museum, Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 8 p. m. The president of the Civil Service Reform Club, Louis A. Frothingham, will preside. The speaker is editor of a political weekly of Philadelphia, and is thoroughly conversant with his subject...