Word: chaired
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...youth, awkward and clumsy, always hurting himself; in fact, it was a constant matter of wonder to all his relations how Davidson had managed to live so long. McClure was a hard student; and for a while all went well. But on an unlucky day he stumbled over a chair in a recitation-room, and, where any common man would merely have barked his shin, McClure broke his right arm and two fingers of his left hand. Recitations were postponed. Hardly had McClure recovered, when he was seized with an attack of typhoid fever, and recitations were again postponed...
...SPECIAL meeting of the Overseers of Harvard College was held Tuesday, December 10, Hon. E. R. Hoar, President, in the chair. The following appointments were confirmed: George Russell Briggs, A. B., as tutor in mathematics for three years from September 1, 1878; Sumner Burritt Stiles, A. B., 1876, as Procter. As Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts for one year, from January 1, 1879, William Gray, Henry J. Bigelow, and Thomas G. Appleton. The election of Reginald Heber Fitz as professor of pathological history was referred under the rules to Hon. Messrs. Codman, Wyman, and Green. The Visiting Committee...
...leaning o'er the arm-chair's back...
After the election of officers Mr. Wright took the chair, and general business was discussed. A motion was made by Mr. Hooper, '80, and seconded, that an executive committee, consisting of the three officers of the Association, and of eight members selected by the officers from the four classes, two from each class, should have charge of the Association, and fix the time and place of the meetings; the eight members from the four classes to serve as stewards. The motion was carried without much debate, and the meeting adjourned...
Another point it would be well to look to is the arrangement and kind of seats. At present the College has quite a varied assortment of benches and chairs, but the popular verdict seems to be that they are all more or less uncomfortable, and there will be great interest taken in what will next be given us to rest on. We have even heard it proposed that every man should provide his own chair, - a plan which certainly would make a novel and interesting recitation-room ; for if there is one thing on which every man has certain...