Word: collective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class elections. The president was empowered to appoint a committee of three to investigate the matter of a class photographer. At the request of Mr. Baylies, the president was also empowered to appoint a committee of two to audit his accounts as manager of the freshman nine and to collect sufficient funds to pay off the debt. The president appointed as photograph committee Messrs. Mackintosh, Saunders and Sexton, and as auditing committee Levering and J. A. White...
...There shall be a competent superintendent of the society, whose duties and pay shall be fixed by the board of direction. He shall deposit with the treasurer a bond satisfactory to the board of directors. He shall receive the signatures of members to these articles; collect their annual fees, and keep accurate lists of the members of the society. He shall attend to the receipt, storage and sale of second-hand furniture, books and other articles placed with the society for sale on commission, and shall remit to the depositors the proceeds of such sales after deducting the commissions...
...Knox Student proposes a plan for an inter-collegiate bulletin. We quote: "The plan we propose is an exceedingly simple one. Each college sends us items of the inter-collegiate interest. We collect these items, and each week send a printed bulletin to all colleges which furnish items. We propose this plan because we believe it practicable. Several Eastern college journals have tried to organize such an association and have failed. To avoid failure we offer to do all the work. We would also suggest the advisability of holding a convention of college editors at Indianapolis next May, during...
...cold for a man who was at liberty to walk around, with his hands in his pockets, and who only staid for a few minutes, what must it have been for one who was obliged to sit still and write for an hour? It is not easy to collect one's thoughts when one is in momentary danger of freezing. A student, after looking over the examination scheme, remarked that he was sure to be "stuck" in two examinations, as they were to be in Massachusetts. This is the general feeling. It is impossible for a man to do himself...
...true that a prophet is not recognized in his own country, it was true of Carlyle. For a long time he could find no publisher for his "Sartor Resartus," and it had to be published piecemeal in a magazine. It was left to a Harvard graduate to collect the scattered papers into a book, which thus established his fame. His miscellaneous Essays, contributed to various English magazines, were collected by the same loving hand and first published in this country. The man who thus taught England to honor its prophet was no other than Ralph Waldo Emerson, for many years...