Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Territorial Clubs are too little apparent to make of it a self-operating institution. This year leaders seem conspicuously absent. According to the testimony of the fourteen members of the Federation who attended the meeting in the Union last evening to hear Dr. Fitch, the handbook, having no definite custodian, has strayed off the road into oblivion somewhere between here and last September. It was established with an ideal worthy of a better fate. If the Territorial Clubs are insistent upon dying, it will, we suppose, descend eventually to that already overburdened organization--the Student Council--for support...
...university professor, besides his interest in his specialty, is "concerned, as a member of the legislative body of his own local institution, with questions of educational policy which are of more than local significance" and "that he is a member of a professional body which is the special custodian of certain ideals, and the organ for the performance of certain functions essential to the well-being of society." This organizing committee is composed of representatives of the chief departments of learning from nearly all the leading universities...
Blaikie (not William Blaikie) was the custodian of the old Harvard boat-house in 1871, and he said, in the presence of several college crews, that these seats could not prove to be of any use. In 1872, Trowbridge entered for the spring races in singles, and with him Bob Russell, the strongest oarsman of his day in college, and with a number of other men. The others failed to come to the scratch, so that the race became as it were a try-out between the new-fangled seats and the old. Trowbridge beat Russell up to the turning...