Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these societies there are two methods of work. One of them is the method used in those much-lauded societies of the German universities-the seminars. According to this plan the society meets at frequent intervals, and has a discussion on some question assigned beforehand. Each member is expected to prepare something to say, and to ask for information regarding any points unsettled in his mind; and every meeting is made profitable in a high degree to the members...
...impossible for us to have a satisfactory explanation of all of them, or to become acquainted thoroughly with the details of those that we comprehend perfectly. The Finance Club has a splendid field of usefulness before it. It ought to fill out the work of its department by having frequent and active discussions on different questions in political economy. It is impossible for each man by himself to work up fully the questions that arise from time to time, and the combined investigation and discussion of a society does exactly what individual workers cannot...
...persons the fact that the bridge was not in keeping with the other property of the university. Like many radical reforms, this did not meet with that appreciation which is encouraging. Some of the reformers will probably soon be in a state of animated suspension, as the faculty holds frequent and protracted sittings, evidently meaning business. A stone and iron bridge may in time replace the one destroyed, but for the present students and professors are put to great inconvenience...
Everybody will hail with satisfaction the introduction of toothpicks at Memorial as a part of the regular bill of fare. At a recent meeting of the board of directors this question was thoroughly discussed, and in accordance with the frequent suggestions of the college papers, it was determined to make the change. It is to be hoped that by this concession all further complaints as to the quality of the board and service will be obviated. Since the Advocate's attacks upon the hall the number of boarders has so largely increased that the management have felt warranted in undertaking...
...They that needlessly frequent the kitchen shall be non plusht by the president" is an old rule of the college, meant, doubtless, to suppress gluttony. On the other hand the following appears among the proceedings of the overseers: "At a meeting of the overseers ye 30 day of ye 3d month For as much as the overseers have been certified that there hath been uncomfortable defects in the diet of the students as also in their lodging: It is ordered that the Corporation speedily inquire into the causes [14] thereof, & take order with the Steward & Treasurer or any other Colledg...