Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thayer, before 10 P. M., next Friday, the fees to be returned to the men who actually take part in the throwing. The first trial will be for long throwing. At a distance of 90 yds. from the take off two goal posts are to be stationed 25 yards apart; and each throw to be counted must be within the line of the posts. Six alternate throws will he allowed each contestant, and the man making the longest good throw will receive the cup. The second competition will be for accurate throwing. Goal posts are to be placed 40 yards...
Four scholarships of at least $250 each are to be set apart for graduate students in the academic year 1883-4. These scholarships are to be open to candidates for the degree of Ph. D. who are in need of pecuniary assistance, and who have been in residence at the university throughout the year. The assignment will be made near the close of the academic year. Applications are to be deposited in the dean's box on or before the last Wednesday in May, and will be referred to the committee on the Harris Fellowship and the Royee Scholarship. Voted...
...German professors as showing how little effect poverty really has or ought to have on the quality of university teaching. Unfortunately, this illustration overlooks the fact that professors, like other people, are influenced largely by their environment. They are not monks or soldiers and do not form communities apart, living in monasteries or barracks. They are part of the society which they serve, and share in its tastes, habits and standards. The German professor cares little about money, because plain living is the rule not simply of his own class but of the official and professional class - that...
...legs Such exhibitions have been exceedingly rare, however, and they have been frowned upon as often as they have occurred. The abolition of the graduating class punch will doubtless remove this slight blemish, however, and so the festival will be marked by no unseemly exhibitions on the college green. Apart from the regular graduating exercises, commencement day has always been devoted to the renewal of the relations of classmates with an institution dear to all their hearts and which they all delight to honor. Clergymen, doctors, lawyers, merchants, students, and men in all the higher walks of life, meet...
...unwilling to assume the responsibility and expense of marking the courts, the owner of the court could with justice be expected to pay for the marking as a sort of fee for the exclusive rights he possesses, especially as continued use of a court is a distinct advantage apart from the slight wearing of the marks...