Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: It is far from my purpose to attempt in any way to throw a wet blanket upon such an assured success as the Cooperative Association, but I should like to ask if the conduct of the gentlemen was not a little premature, who assembled a few nights ago to discuss "informally" (so it was understood) the prospects of the scheme. Officers were elected to an association which did not then exist. The audience who had gathered seemed unable to comprehend this, despite the laudable efforts of one or two gentleman who seemed desirous to impress upon them...
...time, he will always have his membership in his own hands, and so will always have his habits in his own hands. Not only will members thus feel open to all sound argument, but what is even more important, the society will thus recognize the only principle of manly conduct, that we must do as we think right, not because of an artificial attachment to a pledge, but because of our own determination so to do; that the force that regulates personal conduct must come not from without but from within...
...Conduct of Worship." Rev. F. G. Peabody. Divinity-Hall lecture room, 10 A. M. This is the third of a weekly course of ten lectures...
...ecclesiastical meeting at which many eminent ministers were to be present. On arriving, he was surprised to find that after making himself known, no attention whatever was shown him, and from certain ominous whispers he inferred that he was an object of suspicion. His position was embarrasing, and the conduct of his brethren inexplicable. In vain he sought to make himself agreeable or useful, and when at last he was constrained to make a formal demand, he was informed that a few days before his arrival a letter had been received from the president of the college which he professed...
...altogether a new and untried experiment in the history of education. Whether the frequenters at the Academy at Athens in classic times were held under the strict sway of a model "paternal" government, of the most approved American pattern, or whether they thrived upon elective courses in conduct, as well as in studies (see Professor Clapp in the last Nation, who believes election in one necessarily implies election in the other) is a question perhaps beyond our powers to determine. Young America, alas, did not exist in those days and, of a consequence, the delights and glories of college hazing...