Word: elections
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Philosophy, 2 (9 A. M.). SOPH. ELECT. PHILOSOPHY...
...definitely abandoned. The half the class dissatisfied with the principles on which the other half ran the meeting of the class now recognize, after painful experience, the fact that arguments are of no avail. The next step in the matter will be taken by those who support the officers elect, who will fill the vacant offices from their own ranks. The rest of the class - whether that be a majority or a minority is not now known - will then probably take some independent action...
...taking copious notes, and by appearing to be interested in his numerous remarks, you will soon be distinguished from the great body of your classmates. You will be spoken of as a man of marked promise. You will be welcomed by any college magnate whose courses you deign to elect. And an occasional weak examination will be attributed to some unavoidable mischance...
...regular annual meeting of the Reading-Room Association will take place in Massachusetts Lower Hall on Tuesday, June 20, at 5 P. M. The object of the meeting is to elect officers for next year, and to transact other important business. A full attendance is desired...
...result of the working of this new system it is easy to foresee. Seniors, as was last week pointed out, will take pains - and often at the sacrifice of their personal preferences - to elect soft courses. Already there are reports of Juniors who are about to change their "well-considered plans," and give up studies for which they have a taste for those which will insure them their A. B.'s. I know of one man who has made a specialty of English and Saxon studies, who had elected English 4 for next year. He has taken all the other...