Word: argos
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate, R. G. Butler; Crimson, F. W. Moulton, A. M. Butler; Herald, G. H. Heilbron; Princetonian, J. A. Hodge, Otto Crouse; Argonaut, C. D. Willard; Chronicle, L. S. Berry; University Magazine, F. E. Smiley, C. O. Beasley, L. M. Bullitt; Athenaeum. S. V. V. Holmes, G. A. Copeland; Argo, H. S. Underwood, Willis Reed; Cornell Review, H. L. Aldrich; University Quarterly, A. T. Sperry; the Vassar Miscellany was represented by proxy...
...morning session of Dec. 28th, was devoted to a discussion of the constitution as presented by Mr. Holmes. chairman of the constitutional committee. The constitution, as finally adopted and ratified by the Harvard Herald, Brunonian, Michigan Chronicle, Michigan Argonaut, Acta Columbiana, Amherst Student, University Magazine, Williams Argo and Williams Athenaeum, sets forth the object and aims of the association, and provides for the establishment of a corresponding secretary at each of the colleges represented. It also provides for an annual meeting of the association for the purpose of transacting business and discussing matters of general interest connected with college journalism...
WILLIAMSThe Argo favors the scheme. "To us," it says, "this division of forces and reformation of associations, seems eminently practicable and desirable. In the first place the old scheme would make the membership of the league too great for a large or advantageous series of games between the different nines, and in the second place, such a game as Williams would play with a nine which stands any chance for the championship would be neither as profitable nor interesting as one with a nine more nearly her equal in strength...
...letter from Harvard appears in the last Argo. The writer repeats the suggestion recently made in the HERALD apropos of the recent Thanksgiving petition episode, that some official medium of communication ought to be established by the college between faculty and students. "It has not been found," it says, "that a faculty loses its dignity by taking the students into its confidence, and some college faculties have found that it pays to make public announcement, explanation, and exposition of new rules. An arbitrary faculty is oftentimes accountable for an insbordinate 'studentry...
...Williams Argo (Vol. II., No. 10) we cannot help thinking in literary merit-in lightness and finish of style throughout-surpasses all of our exchanges. We commend it to our readers as very nearly a model college literary journal...