Word: finding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...June the candidates from academies did a little better than those from other schools, but both sets of schools were less successful in the work of their candidates than the public high schools. Within the college itself, taking the number of men who graduated last year with distinction, we find that of the total 172, 84 came to College from public high schools, 44 from academies, 32 from private schools and 12 from other colleges...
...seats over four hundred persons, he found standing-room only; and it was not Cambridge women that filled the seats--it was Harvard students. After the lecture, remembering that there should be that evening a meeting of the Classical Club, he went to the top of Stoughton Hall to find there between twenty and thirty men, who, oblivious alike of banking and of Yale, had spent the evening in a discussion of Homeric Philology. "Harvard indifference," says one critic; "Harvard University," says another." CHARLES S. MOORE, Assistant Recorder
...Cosby said, to take part in the affairs of the country and, by endeavoring to give intelligence and honesty their proper place in politics, to do away with the present type of professional politician. Young men should recognize that they must take their share in affairs, learn men, find out what is necessary to be done, and do it. As politicians are professional men who have graduated from a training in practical politics, they are to be defeated only by men who have also had such a training. Young men, therefore, who desire to go into politics should begin...
...older graduates, who have the very first right to the enjoyment of Commencement, would suffer the most. The Stadium is also at no small distance from the Yard, where both on Class Day and Commencement those who are fond of the University and who know it intimately, like to find the centre of interest; it is not a wise suggestion which would separate the exercises of graduation and the centres of University life. Then, too, the journey to and from the Stadium, especially if the weather is not ideal, will be the object of no pleasant anticipation and no grateful...
...intend to try for their class relay teams are requested, instead of handing in their names to Mr. Graham, to sign, at once, in a blue-book which has been placed on the desk in the janitor's room in the Gymnasium. Hereafter, the track men will find any track notices, which it may be necessary to post, on a new bulletin board to be put up today in the janitor's office. This new bulletin will also be used for other official athletic notices...