Word: elements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undue haste in the choice of delegates, it might be well to require their election by ballot. Another regulation might be that one, but only one, delegate shall be chosen who is especially interested in athletics, thus avoiding the danger, which is often experienced in colleges, of the athletic element overriding the general interests of the students. They should be elected at the first class meeting, and should serve during the year...
...whereas the authorities seemed satisfied with this meagre action, the students were and are not satisfied. Every time an orphan or insane asylum is burned down and a number of inmates become victims to the fiery element, the students in the tall dormitories tremble and sigh for better protection. As was said earlier in the year the staples nestling in the woodwork of the bedrooms fail to give complete confidence that a fire would not bring disastrous consequences. There fore, why should not the authorities jump at the chance to prevent fires entirely, since a ready means for so doing...
...with those among us who understand the game of foot ball, as to what changes in the rules will do away with the "brutal" part of the game, (for, as Prof. Byerly has said, and he probably voices the opinion of the other members of the Committee, the dangerous element of the game is the least objectionable, especially since that would be greatly done away with, if the "brutal" element were eliminated.) Let us then have a chance to make the necessary changes in the rules at the convention of the Intercollegiate Association, and then let the game be played...
...heartily in your protest against acts of insubordination and lawlessness by way of manifesting your discontent with the present compulsion. Nothing can excuse such acts as the recent disfiguration of the chapel, and nothing will more certainly impede your movement. Indeed, the various indications of late, that an element of rowdyism is reappearing a Harvard, will be seized upon as an argument that more, and not less restraint is needed...
Moreover, in addition to the furnishing of rooms, there is also a certain element of worry and uncertainty in settling what lectures are to be attended, and whether or no the use of "a coach" is advisable. In the arrangement of these matters, let us look with the eye of pity and contempt upon the work which falls upon the Tutors, and if they continually forget our names when we call upon them, and very evidently regard our presence as a necessary but still most annoying infliction, let us remember that they, too, are but human, and that...