Word: defers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Club met in Robert's Hall yesterday afternoon and elected officers for the organization. It was decided that the office of president be made temporary until the first week in January. Mr. S. Howell was elected president, and Mr. J. Hubbard secretary and treasurer. It was thought best to defer the choosing of a leader until a more thorough organization was effected. At the beginning of the year the outlook for a good club was rather poor, but a large number of new men have presented themselves as candidates, and it is thought from this number, together with the best...
...insignificant factor, considering the large surplus the nine is sure to have this year. It is getting so near examination time that unless the matter is attended to very soon, there will be no time to play a series. Let us hope that the association will not defer offering the cups till it is too late...
...makes him feel as though, in some unaccountable way, he has grown fifteen or twenty years older during the few months elapsed since his high school commencement day. Under the despotic sway of the high school pedagogue he was a boy; he has suddenly become a man; distinguished professors defer to him, treat him almost as their equal, he finds that his education depends mainly on the soundness of his own judgment. Harvard theory assumes that a youth of eighteen or nineteen is not the thoughtless, irrational creature he is generally supposed...
...club to the Natural History Society, the whole club to be incorporated as a sub-section of the N. H. Society. This sub-section will then have a curator, chairman, and secretary of its own. Mr. Garrison was elected chairman by a unanimous vote, but it was resolved to defer the election of other officers till the next meeting. It was decided that members should be free to keep what specimens they desired for their private collections, but the society will also form a collection which will be added to that of the N. H. Society. The meeting was successful...
...this article as may be seen, no mention is made of the University or Freshmen crews. It was found best to defer a full description of them until certain changes have been made in the composition of the Freshman crew. It is gratifying to everybody interested in Harvard boating or in the physical development of students, to notice the large number of students in strict training. This thorough system of training for class races was introduced several years ago by our late coach, Col. Bancroft. Now that the onerous duty of coaching the crews falls upon the respective captains...