Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...provisional list of the Mid-Year Examinations for 1884-85 is at length, some two weeks behind time. It will be noticed that the examinations begin a few days earlier than usual and consequently are over on Feb. 7. For the first time the freshmen will take their examinations at the same time with the upper classmen instead of before Christmas...
...Columbia boat club, which was very heavily in debt last year, has reduced its debt so as to be now only four hundred dollars behind hand. W. A. Meikleham has been elected captain of the club for the ensuing year...
Hazing at Union College is over for this year. Four sophomores were detected in the act of placing a freshman on a Chinese idol standing behind the college and were promptly suspended, but were reinstated on condition that each one in the class would sign an agreement not to do any more hazing...
...natural, therefore, for Harvard to adopt a tradition that had such good usage behind it, although unprecedented in any American college; and at about the beginning of President Eliot's regime, we find that this was done. In the catalogue for 1870 is given for the first time, a list of electives under Professor Paine in music, including "harmony." "counterpoint," and the "simple forms of composition...
...Denniston then pointed out that the referee often would not disqualify single instances of unfair play that he saw, knowing such to be only a small part of what went on behind his back, and was hence in a false position. Division of labor among several referees was the true solution; let this be proposed to Yale, if they adopt it well and good; but if not, then let the game be stopped at Harvard. Mr. Williams thought that playing had improved in tone this year, and that the stronger public opinion of the present would uphold and carry through...