Word: collection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...operative errand boy is to collect second-hand books from the members in College House today. Collections from the other dormitories will be made next week...
...Saturday morning the crowd began to collect at the boat house to see the scratch races. By 11-50 both the upper and the lower balconies of the boat house were crowded two or three deep along the edge, and a few were on the roof. The number on the balconies was greater than usual, as the crowd left the floats on account of the rain. At about 11-55, just as the four crews were drawing into line for the start at the lower bridge, the lower balcony suddenly gave away, at a point near the centre, the part...
...have not yet subscribed will give as much as they can, as it will require fully $10,000 to get the new track and grounds into first class shape. The committee wish that every man in college who takes any interest in Harvard athletics would do his best to collect money for the new grounds and to awaken interest on the subject among graduates. Subscriptions may be paid to the class committees or to any one of the undersigned...
...mistake, as is sometimes stated, but has been the means of diffusing the greatest possible amount of learning and intelligence among the many American citizens. "What we want," he says, "is not two or three centres of learning, like Oxford and Cambridge in England, where all young Americans can collect who want more than a common school education, but small colleges scattered broadcast over our three million square miles of territory where a good practical education may be obtained by students who desire to devote the four years to the mere purpose of cultivation, broadening and strengthening their minds...
...candidates for the bachelor's degree whether they have been guilty of adultery or perjury or forgery; but the questions on which they do seek information are in some cases only a degree less insulting to those to whom they are addressed. The information of this sort which they collect and spread before the public, it is needless to say, excites no other feeling than disgust in the mind of every one at all sensitive to the claims of decency and propriety. Like other matters of taste it is not a subject for argument. It is difficult...