Word: conference
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost-In the Gymnasium, Tuesday evening, a plain gold ring. The finder will confer a favor by leaving at the Gymnasium Office...
Lost-In the Gymnasium, Tuesday evening, a plain gold ring. The finder will confer a favor by leaving it at the Gymnasium Office...
...some of the social features which have hitherto marked the observance of commencement day at the university were no longer to be tolerated within the college precincts, has made a commotion among the alumni scarcely less profound than that occasioned by the action of the overseers in refusing to confer an honorary degree on Governor Butler. The exact meaning of this semi-official utterance was not fully understood at first, but the plain English of it was taken to be that the flowing bowls of punch and other mellowing refreshments which the various classes have been accustomed, more majorum...
Among the pleasantest features of college life in the spring are the open-air concerts by the Glee Club. The amount of pleasure they confer upon the student must far outweigh any little trouble to which the club is put, and yet thus far the club has sung only twice. These concerts have for a long time almost formed a part of college life, and it does not seem as if the club could be justified in so slighting them. It is generally supposed to be a college institution; if it is, more attention ought to be paid...
...Harvard's loss of "popularity" the Boston Herald says: There is a great deal of idle talk about some supposed loss of popularity which is to accrue to Harvard College because its overseers, acting in the performance of the duties of their office, have not thought it proper to confer the degree of doctor of laws upon Governor Butler. We do not suppose that the overseers gave any special thought to the popularity or the unpopularity of their act. They had a simple duty to perform, and they performed it; and to suppose that the college is to lose...