Word: currently
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...current expenses of the new Gymnasium will be very large, and it is to be regretted that no provision for meeting them has been made. An endowment is needed...
...were confirmed: Dudley A. Sargent, M. D., assistant professor of physical training and director of the Hemenway Gymnasium; Charles Sprague Sargent, A. B., Arnold professor of arboriculture; Luther Dimmick Shepard, D. M. D., professor of operative dentistry; George H. Howison, lecturer on ethics in the Divinity School for the current academic year; Harry Blake Hodges, instructor in chemistry and German for the current academic year; William Cranston Lawton, A. B., Henry Gilman Nichols, A. B., Edward Emerson Phillips, A. B., as proctors...
...unjustifiable. One would think that the reasons would be apparent to any honest and fair-minded man. In the first place, this move of the Bursar's is nothing more than an attempt, which might almost be called underhanded, to get from the students more money to pay the current college expenses than is given by the regular stated college fees. It is apparent enough that the janitors, regular college employees, are underpaid with the understanding that they shall make up their salaries out of the students. If proof were needed the janitors state this themselves, and to our faces...
...CLAIM of mine, duly filed in the current month of February for a deduction on account of ten days' absence, was disallowed by the Auditor, on the ground that no complete week as recognized by the Dining Association had been included therein. The rule of the Association on which the Auditor's action was based, seemed manifestly so opposed to common sense, that I petitioned the Directors to be exempted from its provisions. At their meeting on Wednesday the Directors acknowledged the unfairness of the rule by rescinding it. Other petitions for deduction for the same reason as mine came...
SENIOR.[The writer of this letter has made a mistake in the use of the word "current." If he will turn to Worcester's Dictionary he will find that "current" means "now actually passing," and consequently it is incorrect when writing in April to speak of the "current month of February." His petition to the Directors reads as follows: "A claim of mine, made in the current month, for deduction on account of absence from February 14 to February 24, is disallowed, etc." The Directors naturally supposed that he had not handed in his petition until April, and so very...