Word: follows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mode of celebration, I heartily endorse your suggestion that we follow the example of the Boston Latin School, in calling upon prominent alumni to make this anniversary one that we undergraduates may look back upon with pride and pleasure...
...question of forming a Conference Francais is at present under discussion. It will follow the plan of the present seminars in the mathematics and physics...
...spoke of President Eliot's proof that at present under our elective system the students are not likely to specialize their work overmuch. He furthermore takes up the other side of the matter, and shows quite conclusively that few follow incoherent and aimless courses. Upon submitting to three experts his tables showing the studies of every member of the classes of 1884 and 1885, two out of these three men (not always the same two) agreed upon only twenty-one cases of seemingly inconsecutive choices out of the whole number of three hundred and fifty; but all three agreed only...
...time of sittings for "group" photographs has come at last. The first notice of the season for a sitting is published in our columns this morning, and other notices of the same sort will probably follow in rapid succession. Some men take pleasure in sitting for photographs; to them we need give no urging. But many more either are quite indifferent to sitting, or find it an irksome task. To such we say only this. Failure on any one's part to comply with the requests made in the notices of the different secretaries of clubs and societies, not only...
...president consists in keeping order at the festive board and in calling for a "salamander." This mysterious ceremony is repeated several times of an evening. The president who sits at the head of the table arises, orders the glasses to be refilled, then he invites all present to follow him in emptying their glasses in one draught. This fact is accomplished in a surprisingly short time, and then the emptied glasses are rubbed around on the table while some formula, the club's watchword is uttered over them. But this wholesale absorption is by no means the only occasion which...