Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...disintegration into smaller colleges which Mr. Corbin, after a year or two at Oxford, advocates strongly, but rather in a greater unity and a broader sympathy among all undergraduates, inspired not alone by the hope of athletic success, but also by an interest in one another and in the common institution and its traditions...
...Monday, the 31st, at the regular Memorial Day celebration, Prof. William James and Booker T. Washington, who was given an honorary A. M. at the last Commencement, are to deliver addresses at the unveiling of the Shaw statue on Boston common...
...subservient" but the writer is either prejudiced or uninformed when he says that the "waiters cannot, on account of their position, act independently." Some of this year's board most ready to advocate change and most openly "unsubservient" have been waiters. There has never been any strong feeling of common interest or any solid organization of the men who wait at the Foxcroft Club and there never will be unless it is produced artificially by such senseless discrimination as your correspondent advises...
FOUND.- A silver watch on Common, in Cambridge, Monday, May 3; monogram H. Apply to Percival, 7 College House...
...Richard H. Dana '74, of Cambridge, was the speaker at the smoke talk of the Civil Service Reform Club yesterday evening. He gave a general view of the reform, showing with much clearness its objects and methods, and meeting conclusively the common objections of the spoilsmen. In concluding, he spoke of the need for young men to take up the work and carry it on; and made an earnest appeal to those present to take an interest in the reform...