Word: exists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these lectures by the large audiences which attended them, must have clearly demonstrated to the club that the efforts have been successful and appreciated. It is in this way, namely by holding lectures, that such a club makes for itself a place among the many clubs and societies which exist here. By its energy the Finance Club has won for itself such a place, and is to be congratulated upon the success which has attended it during the past year...
...again brings up the old question as to what is meant by the so-called "voluntary recitation" system. There is nothing in the college regulations that directly asserts that attendance upon recitations is at the option of the student; nor do the authorities directly grant any such principle to exist. Still, the almost universal attitude of instructors and uncertain statements of the regulations have always allowed the inference that, to a certain extent, attendance upon recitations was voluntary. All that was necessary, was that a student should show sufficient ground for supposing that the purposes of his residence were being...
...fact. the game exists for the same reason that horse racing and circus exhibitions exist. The students who are good players are led into base ball by the eclat which good playing brings there. If fun and out-door exercise were the only motives, the scientific game of base ball would be forgotten in a week...
...this complaint will be echoed by almost every organization in college. The college seems to show its desire that Harvard should be represented by newspapers as well as by athletics in the most inexpensive way. It seems to be taken for granted that the nine and crew will always exist and that the papers will always appear regularly, but the fact that such luxuries cost money does not seem so well known. The students as a body seem to feel that somebody will pay the bills, and that they need not trouble themselves. Such a state of affairs...
...unqualified surrender which they have been drawn into making from their position. An Alumnus of several years said that the way matters stood at present placed the students in a puerile light, that they were wrong in not providing for some future action, that a system of espionage did exist in the college, and that he thought the majority of younger Alumni believed it. As it stands at present it is uncertain whether any further action will be taken...