Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entire editorial board of the Exonian will enter Harvard...
...publish elsewhere a short account of President Eliot's report to the Board of Overseers. We concur most heartily in what is said about voluntary chapel and the other questions concerning the college. But in the final paragraph relating to athletic sports, we find sentiments expressed with which we cannot entirely agree. Admitting that "foot-ball, base-ball, and rowing are liable to abuses." yet we cannot see that these abuses are altogether of the kind President Eliot mentions. Extravagant expenditure and betting are, to be sure, abuses which exist and flourish abnormally. Our position in regard to them...
...board at Yale refused to accept the result of the election by the juniors of the new members and ordered a new election. This was held and the same men elected. These the old board refused again, and then arbitrarily they appointed the men they wished themselves. There is much excitement and ill-feeling over the affair...
...Board of Overseers. Adjourned meeting at No. 50 State street, Boston...
...proper understanding between students and faculty is lack of information. There is much printed matter, furnished gratuitously, which is not read. For instance, a student said to the president that the "organization of Memorial was fundamentally vicious, as the steward had an interest in making the board bad, as he got 50 per cent. of every order." This is "fundamentally" wrong. An officer of the Hall did not know that the directors could dismiss the steward without consulting anybody, yet all this is in the "Scheme for carrying on the Hall." Courtesy for other bodies often obliges the faculty...