Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that needs to be avoided, if possible : that is, the tendency to stray from the question under discussion to mere refutations of perhaps very insignificant points. It might be advisable, in order to keep the subject constantly in mind, to have it written plainly on the blackboard behind the chairman's desk. The subject for the next debate is one of much interest and importance. We regret the action of the authorities in refusing the use of Sanders Theatre for speakers invited by the Union; as yet, we have heard of no reason for the refusal...
...walked out feeling that, whatever the examiners might say, they could not accuse me of being commonplace. Well, tempus fugit (notice my exact knowledge of Latin quantity). One day I received a notification commonly yclept a summons. Veni, vidi, vici. The assembled Faculty received me with uncovered heads. The chairman of the returning board bored me with an address three hours long. He alluded in feeling terms to the evidence contained in my Latin paper that I spent my Sundays in profitable conversation, - probably on art, he remarked. He also hazarded a guess that I belonged to the Art Club...
...committee to visit the Botanic Garden are : (Chairman) Mr. Leverett Saltonstall; Messrs. Fred. L. Ames, Wm. Boit, John Cummings, Wm. Gray, Jr., Augustus Lowell, H. H. Hunnewell, J. Warren Merrill, Francis H. Osborne, John C. Phillips, Dr. H. P. Walcott...
...direct the affairs of the nation, has performed its duty. The vote, though not as large as it might have been, speaks well for the interest taken in politics by undergraduates, while the success of the canvass was owing, in a great measure, to the efforts of the Chairman of the Committee...