Word: founds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Stuffed Club" system, and in a less degree, in the method of nomination pursued last year, many men found their representatives chosen for them without regard to their consent. By a curious contradiction in terms, however, the officers elected were called Class-Day officers, and assumed to represent the class. As long as Class Day is to be an occasion commemorative of class traditions and associations, no stretch of the imagination can make it other than a "snatch and have" proceeding for any section of a class - even "a limited body of men of fashion" to arrogate to itself...
...theme of many communications to the College papers; but, at the risk of trying your patience in the latter respect, I take this opportunity of noticing some careful investigation and their results within the hall, and correcting some rash statements without. In the Crimson for December 10 will be found an ably written article on the needs of Memorial Hall, embracing, in a general way, nearly all the species of complaints made by reasoning students; smacking, it is true, of the eight-dollar boarding-houses, yet far less unreliable than an editorial on this subject in the same paper...
...body of men, varying in numbers between one hundred and fifty and two hundred, enter college together. For the most part they are strangers to each other, and the vast differences in antecedents, in habits, in tastes, and in character which cannot but be found among them, prevent them from forming one great circle of friends. They cannot but separate into cliques, more or less distinct; and they cannot in four years become so completely familiar with the character of every classmate that they can unhesitatingly declare that a certain man is best fitted to hold a certain office...
...present we are in a peculiar situation in regard to these colleges. We have found, by a rather unpleasant experience, that our interests in boating matters are not identical with theirs, and we have taken what I consider a most wise course, in announcing our intention of dissolving our connection with them. This seems to me the policy which will of necessity be adopted in future. It is the only way in which we can avoid the unpleasantness sure to arise when we attempt to pull together and find by experience the difference in our interests...
...needed can never be found...