Word: command
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee from the CRIMSON, yesterday, interviewed members of the faculty upon the question of the yard committee. The committee learned that, as the faculty had voted to give the command of the yard into the hands of the students, the students were to be allowed to work out the plan by which the necessary work is to be accomplished. The difficulties of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion are recognized, and the students will be expected to surmount the difficulties and perfect a scheme by which the desired results of successful student control of the yard may be attained...
...accomplish them all, but must pick and choose, and be content with the accomplishment of the most important of them. This is apropos of the choice of electives. The same principle is at work in both cases. We find ourselves placed before a distracting labyrinth of knowledge, and the command given us, "Choose!" Some of us want to take so many different courses that we cannot easily condense our desires. Others, without any particular wish for any knowledge, fail to see which courses out of the multitude they ought to select. What is there to guide us? Who shall...
...Boylston prize speaking, which occurred last evening, offers an opportunity for some criticism upon the methods pursued in the preparation for this annual contest. The Boylston prizes are offered as a reward to those students who upon an annual trial shall exhibit the best command over vocal and dramatic expression. It has been urged that the present plan which allows the cramming of a piece for the declamation in the last few days before the trial, defeats the purpose of the prize. We take strong exceptions to this view, for the simple reason that we deny that any student...
...Studd, who is to speak in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening, we would say that we believe that what he will have to present will be exceedingly interesting to college men, and at least will command their hearty respect. Mr. Studd has visited Yale and Cornell and other colleges, and the papers from those colleges speak even enthusiastically of him. He is an Englishman, and was educated at Eton and Cambridge (class of '83), so that his sympathies with college students are naturally very strong. As captain of the Cambridge University Cricket Eleven, he won great distinction in athletics. "A typical...
...Nassau Lit. as the bean ideal of what a college magazine should be, we cannot help thinking that perhaps it is justified in its call for more translations. In the first place, it is not to be presumed that an immature writer whose sole merit is a good command of English, can develop the instant he becomes editor of a college paper into a Stimson or a Stockton; a famous novelist has said that a short story well done, is a more difficult task than a novel, - and it is short stories our college papers demand as a rule...