Word: forward
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...vote of the Memorial Dining-Hall Directors, each table is to choose itself a head, whose duties are to receive any complaints or suggestions of other members in regard to fare or service, in writing, and to forward them to a committee appointed for the consideration of them. This committee is at present Messrs. Jennings, L. S. S., McDuffie, '76, and Starr...
...anticipate the objection that the upholders of the old system, if such there be, will certainly bring forward, namely, that the new system substitutes wire-pulling and buttonholing among the class in general, instead of confining it to societies individually, - that elections will be run by cliques instead of societies. Even if this were admitted, - and respect for the higher tone of the class forbids it, - we should be the gainer in the fact that the wire-pulling is done by ever-changing cliques, taking their stand annually on very different class interests, and such as are demanded...
...them a most promising year for the reading interests of the College. It is to such liberal-minded generosity of Harvard men that we see our College occupying its enviable place in the higher culture of our time; and we look to the able and thinking undergraduates to come forward now, and whenever there is need, to remove the burdens by whose weight the usefulness of the Reading-Room is impaired. The generous response which this call has already met with but indicates that the old true spirit of Harvard is still here, and shames the shamelessness of those...
...boat and waste strength by catching the oar in the water and making the boat roll, but it positively prevents the proper shoot out of the hands on the beginning of the recover, and causes a pause followed by an uneven, bucketing rush, instead of a steady swing forward, which alone can insure perfect uniformity of time and prepare for a dashing stroke...
There is one time at which the men of a class are thrown together for social enjoyment, at a time too when the pleasantest feelings are uppermost. Our class-suppers are confessedly pleasant occasions; they are looked forward to, are attended by the majority, and are classed among the pleasantest memories of the past. Why is it, then, that at Harvard each class passes only one evening of sociality together? At many other colleges the custom prevails of having suppers every year, and everywhere, so far as my knowledge goes, these suppers form one of the pleasantest parts of college...