Word: cast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...result of yesterday's election at Memorial was as follows : Mr. Baldwin, '85, received 443 out of the 473 votes cast, and was elected president. Mr. Merriam, '86, received 354 votes out of 482 cast, and was elected vice-president...
...lists of forty names each of men who are deemed most worthy of a place among the immortals have very little value apart from showing the relative popularity of the men chosen. The fact that the total number of votes cast both by Harvard students and by the reading public reached by a New York literary weekly, was so small makes any choice of names liable to the suspicion of local preferences. If is but natural that men who are about to select a list of names which whey consider of most worth, should be more or less influenced...
...regular in the performance of his college duties, being seldom absent from prayers or lectures. His work, however, was done as best suited his convenience, and he was ready at all times to cast books aside that he might chat with some friends, or go out into the surrounding country for a long stroll with a few of his chosen companions...
...students, we presume, are expected to occupy an attitude of doubtful patience. We are not aware that conference or co-operation with them has been proposed, notwithstanding the obvious arguments in favor of such a course. Indeed we have heard it stated that some votes in the faculty were cast in favor of the regulations, at the time of their first consideration, under the impression that they were earnestly desired by a large majority of the students. This impression we hope the recent mass meeting has corrected. We are also led to believe that the arguments presented in the petition...
...midst of the tumultuous city, here all is stillness and solitude, where medical science, taking her pupils by the hand, leads them into her secret chambers, unfolding the intricacies of every department. An Apollo Belvedere and a Venus de Medici show in one room imitations in plaster cast and in marble, models of art and of the just and fairest proportions of the human form...