Word: electives
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...June 28 the alumni of Harvard College will elect seven gentlemen to fill the vacancies which then occur in the Harvard board of overseers. The committee for the alumni appointed to receive nominations of candidates has already reported a list of twenty-eight names to select from. It is stated that a determined effort will be made by certain physicians among the alumni and others interested, to induce their friends to vote for Messrs. William G. Russell, Charles H. Dalton, Leveret Saltonstall, Charles F. Adams, Jr., Samuel A. Green, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Richard Olney, as they are understood...
...vacancy in the office of president or treasurer shall be filled temporarily by the board, until a meeting of the society shall elect permanent officers...
...recent exchange serious objection was made in a lengthy editorial to Harvard's elective system, on the ground that studies like philosophy, etc., were not prescribed, and that a student was free to elect any subject, whether it was adapted to his wants or entirely unsuited for him, and taken merely as an easy course. The elective system no doubt presents many temptations to a student not inclined to work, but, on the other hand, opportunity is given by this system to pursue a course of study calculated to educate one for his future life, whatever...
Pippins, solemnly warned that his present course will surely shorten his days, says his consolation is that it will at least lengthen his nights. Elect another course, Pippins...
...from the rules adopted by the Intercollegiate Association, last December, may be of interest to our readers: "In the first place, the membership at present is limited to the clubs of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Brown; and a unanimous vote of all these clubs is necessary to elect new members of the association. The annual fee for membership is fifteen dollars. In regard to the rule governing the membership of college club nines the constitution provides that 'Any student who has been pursuing a course of study through the entire collegiate year, and whose college expenses...