Word: fours
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best men may be defeated at the election of the votes of the class have to be scattered among too large a number of nominees. This applies especially to the committee's, which, though esteemed minor honors, are very great in importance. Usually there are not more than four men for each committee who deserve to be elected. But if eight or more nominations are made for each committee, and a number of Seniors are induced to vote for candidates whose chance of success is small, chiefly for reasons of personal loyalty, the election may miscarry. The committee which ought...
...first grant which the town of Cambridge gave to Harvard College was four and a half acres where Holworthy, Hollis and Stoughton now stand. From that time until 1883, when the last purchase was made, it was gradually increased until the 24 acres which now constitute the Yard were procured. In the earliest years of the College history, the town palisades to keep off the Indians ran along the western border of the present Yard, and at the corner of Harvard square was a hill on which a sentry watched continually. The College woodpile was on the site of University...
...members of the New Yale University Council for the next year have been announced by President Hadley as follows: Sixteen members of the faculty, four of them from the academic department, three from the scientific school, two each from the law, medical and divinity schools, and one each from the graduate and art schools and from the musical department...
...James Stillman, of New York, who gave the $50,000 for the new infirmary and the land on which it is to be built, has offered to contribute annually for four years the sum of $2500 towards he support of the institution...
...College men, consists of W. A. M. Burden '00, R. W. Lawrence '01, C. D. Daly '01, R. Derby '03, W. J. Desmond 2L., D. F. Drake '00, and the three officers. The representatives from the Sophomore class has not yet been chosen. This committee is making arrangements for four of five religious meetings, the first of which will be held in the Brooks Hall immediately after the formal opening of Brooks House in January. The committee also intends to send in a petition to the administrative committee of the house for permission to smoke in the building...