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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have elected J. A. Mead and C. Moore directors of the Memorial Hall Dining Association for the ensuing year. The class unanimously adopted the following resolution: Resolved, That our directors be instructed to use every means in their power to procure the dismissal of the present steward at the earliest moment possible...
...State House still remain; while across the water, says G. W. Curtis in his "Eulogy on Sumner," "Lo! memorial of a battle lost and a cause won, the tall, gray, melancholy shaft on Bunker Hill rises; 'rises till it meets the sun in his coming, while the earliest light of morning gilds it, and parting day lingers and plays on its summit...
...student who fails to answer a summons from the Dean, Register, or Secretary at the appointed time, is expected to answer that summons at the earliest opportunity, as determined by the hours of the officer who summoned him, without waiting for a second summons. - Bulletin Board...
...appear as powerful as their predecessors; yet the comparison is on the whole favorable to the present representatives. The change in the manner of training a university crew has been almost as marked in the last three years as the change between the time of our earliest boating experience and the time of the formation of the R. A. A. C. The men of four years ago thought they did much hard work when they were trying for the "'varsity," but, compared to what the candidates for positions in the boat have done this winter, their exertions seem moderate...
...semiannual examinations could be made public a little earlier than they are. The utter ignorance of their position, in which many men find themselves, is very dispiriting. That our instructors are hard worked nobody pretends to doubt; and that as a rule they return the examination-books at the earliest moment compatible with their convenience is generally admitted. Yet, perhaps unreasonably, many of the students think that their marks might be announced within a fixed period, - three or four weeks from the examination, for example, - and our instructors may be sure that a sacrifice of their personal convenience in this...