Word: conducted
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...college government, and it seems, next to the scheme for a regular university commons, to be the most feasible of any yet suggested. It is that a contract be made between the corporation and some experienced and responsible person, by which the latter shall be allowed to conduct a students' dining hall in Memorial, furnishing (under certain restrictions) board to those members of the university who desire it. Under this plan satisfactory board at varying rates, adjusted to the requirements of all classes, could and would undoubtedly be furnished, provided due care were exercised in selecting the contractor...
...thread which the slightest strain would easily break. It is now time, once for all, to determine the needs of its future and permanent welfare. We must look the facts squarely in the face and act according to the conclusions legitimately obtained from them. We have tried to conduct the hall as a student affair, and have failed; it is unpleasant to say "failed," but it is for all that the truth. It is not our purpose, nor is it necessary, to show why we have not been successful in our endeavors; we are concerned only with the remedy...
...after conference with those who have had experience in similar matters, we have come to the conclusion that there is one, and only one, way in which to make the commons a success. The college authorities must relieve the students from all responsibility or care in the matter, and conduct the hall as they do dormitories. They must make a college affair of it, if we may use an expression that will be readily understood. It would be useless for us to explain how easy it would be for the authorities to do this; how an especial officer should...
...Conduct of Worship. Professor F. G. Peabody, Divinity Hall Lecture Room, 10 A. M. Weekly course...
...those of New England universities. The principal building is fireproof; even the roof is built of slabs of marble. The stairs from bottom to top are self-supporting, without wood-work. This building is devoted wholly to the business of instruction, and the teachers are responsible for the good conduct of the pupils while under their care. When they pass from the recitation rooms they fall under the eye of an entirely different set of officers, who regulate their whole life apart from books. The discipline for offenders consists chiefly of admonition, deprivation of privileges, and seclusion. In extreme cases...