Word: ever
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Senior class proposes to take up the question of class buttons tonight. Ever since the custom was inaugurated by the class of 1905 about the middle of their last year, the succeeding classes have received it as an inheritance with more or less enthusiasm. No one has ever been able to show by any actual observance that Senior buttons fulfill in any appreciable measure the task which they are supposed to cope with of extending a man's acquaintance among his classmates and by so doing to encourage what variety of friendship is possible in the average class...
...Wells '97, general secretary of the Alumni Association, assisted by several clerks, is compiling a complete list of names, addresses, and occupations of all living Harvard men. The list will include all men, except present undergraduates, who were ever in the University long enough to have their names in the first edition of the annual Catalogue. The class, department of study, degree, and names of parents--for the benefit of genealogists--will also be given...
...general dullness which prevailed in business circles during the greater part of the fiscal year. The society's prosperity has made possible the declaration of an 8 per cent. dividend in which almost $15,000 will be distributed to the members, a considerably larger amount than has ever been returned before. Such a balance denotes careful management and credit is due the directors of the society for bringing the business through a hard year in such splendid shape...
...anxious debates of the Faculty, through which the modern Harvard has been gradually evolved, he brought the steadying influence of a mind free from provinciality, an acquaintance with the best the world elsewhere has known, a spirit averse to mechanical methods, a loyalty to high ideals, and a disposition ever to make the moral being of the students his prime care. While his colleagues often felt that what he urged required supplementation, or even occasional antagonism, his simplicity, sweetness, and generosity won their affection as truly as his learning did their respect. To him many a young instructor has turned...
...house, and his sympathy with them when they were in academic trouble. When you went to him, you felt that here was a man who might have done, when he was young, just such things as you had done (unless they were pretty bad), and that whether he had ever done them or not, you would meet in him a human being and not a bureaucrat. It was not that he could always save you or wished always to save you from academic penalties--and yet I well remember the first year of the Administrative Board of the College, when...