Word: chains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...absence of testimony against students, faculties have had to govern their course largely by general circumstances, incidental evidence, personal observation and numberless other details perhaps insignificant in themselves but which go to make up the chain of evidence. That there is danger of injustice being done under this method is admitted, and the conscientious fear on the part of college faculties of committing injustice will perhaps largely account for what seems strange to the non-collegiate public - the little punishment there is meted out to students in proportion to the number of offences committed...
...Monday next occurs the annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York at the Metropolitan Opera House. These dinners are always pleasant affairs, the scenes of class and individual reunions, and the connecting link in the great chain of sympathy and affection which binds together all loyal sons of Harvard in ties of lasting friendship. Here men of all ages and fortunes mingle together on a footing of jovial equality; personal and political differences are forgotten, and all unite in striving to make the evening a pleasant and memorable one. May this coming reunion be in every...
Thus link by link is knit the flaming chain...
Like all such things, the procession was late in starting; but when it at last appeared, it was well calculated to chain the interest. It was altogether the most scholarly, artistic, complete and interesting procession that I have ever seen. It was intended to represent, as by a living panorama, the history of the university and city for the last five hundred years; and it certainly succeeded in bringing back those past epochs with startling vividness. There came a sudden clatter of mounted police, then a snarling of antique trumpets, and Lo! the hands on the dial of time swept...
Several thefts at the gymnasium are reported. The most serious loss is that of Latta, '89, who had a costly gold watch and chain stolen Monday afternoon...