Word: affaire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...think that those members of the club who are responsible for this affair deserve the severe condemnation of students and faculty...
...annual dinner of the editors of the Advocate was held last night at the Victorla. It was a very pleasant affair. During the evening a number of toasts were responded to informally. G. P. Wardner, '90, presided. The editors of the Advocate expected to entertain the presidents of the Lampoon and Monthly as guests, but these gentlemen were unable to be present...
...York Evening Post of last Friday a long letter from a Yale alumnus under the heading "Where Reform is Needed at Yale." The writer was much alarmed lest "Yale democracy" should suffer seriously from the yearly increasing extravagance shown in conducting the Junior Promenade. "From the modest affair of ten years ago," he said, "this promenade has grown to an elaborate structure with numerous accessories to manage, enjoy, and recover from, which requires the time and energy of perhaps a third of the students for a week, while the pockets of many of them need the balance of the year...
President Harrison and his cabinet have been invited, like wise the presidents of Harvard, Yale, Princeton Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, and many smaller colleges. A great deal of time has been spent on the affair and a very brilliant occasion is expected...
...come from the departments devoted to classical study and research. It belonged to Harvard as the foremost college in the country, to take the lead and show herself a worthy exemplar in such a matter. As yet, however, little practical interest has been shown here at Cambridge in the affair. Professor Norton himself, has been indefatigable and has been well seconded by the New York city graduates of the university, but little praise can be said for the sympathy and aid shown by instructor and undergraduate in this work. We wish earnestly to call the attention of the college...