Word: collective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students were not allowed to collect in the yard or on the steps of any of the buildings. If half a dozen men grouped themselves together after a recitation, a tutor would come along and disperse them. No smoking was allowed in the yard or on the streets of Cambridge. Any one being seen to enter a place where intoxicants were sold was liable to private and perhaps public reprimand...
...writer of this article has taken pains to collect statistics about the standing of rowing men in college. On this matter he says: "From 1870 to 1876 inclusive, 7,855 men entered the fifteen colleges where rowing has taken root, and of this number 5,537 graduated. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia are among the colleges, whose records were examined. Of rowing men there were 329, of whom 244 received their degrees." At all colleges there is a standard of scholarship below which a student cannot fall, and yet graduate. It requires only moderate ability to reach this standard. Athletes...
...Bowles, '87; Mr. Wheelwright, '87 Mr. Flagg, '87; have kindly offered to collect the unpaid subscriptions for the University Crew. It is hoped that those men who have not paid their subscriptions, should do so before class day, as the expenses at New London are the heaviest in all the year...
...Society in regard to foreign text books, marks an extension of the advantages of this practical and useful institution. Students who have taken German and French courses know the disadvantages and delays under which they have labored before they could really begin their work. It is proposed now to collect the orders at once and forward to the foreign publishers, and thus do away with the uncertainties and high prices attendant on purchases from American and especially Cambridge booksellers. In order to realize the full benefits of this scheme, the orders should be as large as possible. Let every student...
...decide what course should be taken about the erection of a suitable grand stand on Holmes Field. Mr. C. H. Atkinson was elected chairman, and H. A. Taylor secretary of the meeting. The following committee was elected: Fessenden, '86; Russell, '87; and Herron, '87. The committee was authorized to collect subscriptions, and to appoint two assistants from each class to aid in canvassing the college. After considerable discussion as to the expense and size of a grand stand, the committee was directed to examine other plans, in addition to the one by which the cost of the grand stand would...