Word: brought
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard-Columbia freshman race before this, '90 has laid herself open to sharp censure. When the Yale delegates came here about two weeks ago to ask for a reconsideration of the decision of the first meeting of the freshman class, they were promised that the subject would be brought up a second time. The freshmen are guilty of a great neglect of duty in not calling a mass meeting before this, and the best thing they can do now is to call a meeting immediately, discuss the question fully, and make the decision final...
...consequently the records are poor. This is an important event at the Mott Haven sports, and we must hope that these men will do better in the spring. That there is good material represented in the above names, we are sure, but it needs to be brought...
...American School at Athens proved, as was to be expected, a complete success. Those who braved the inclement weather and went to Boston were repaid fully for their pains in hearing an amateur concert that showed no traces of those dreadful evils which are so apt to be brought into prominence in such performances. The work of pushing the fund in aid of the School at Athens has been begun with energy. So worthy an object will not need to go begging...
...president was empowered to appoint a committee of three, who should draw up a series of resolutions expressing the feeling of the class. Mr. Jackson. Mr. Gray and Mr. Brooks were appointed. The matter of wearing gowns at class day in place of the customary dress suits was brought up. Mr. Endicott, speaking of the class-day committee, said that the plan was not feasible, both because it would be too expensive, while the dress suits would still have to be worn, and also because it was not deemed advisable to do away with a custom so long established...
...mere obiter dictum is taken up" and made too much of. On the whole the fair-minded reader must acknowledge that Mr. Hamerton has not gotten the upper hand in the discussion. In fact, it is astonishing that he does not employ more strict logic in refuting the charges brought against him. No American can hesitate to uphold Col. Higginson's side of the question...