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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pitiful ignorance of parliamentary rules displayed by most of them (for there are exceptions) is deplorable. What is more, it is embarrassing in the extreme to all men present to see an officer, elected to conduct their meeting, blunderingly ask advice of his secretary, of his nearest friend, of anybody who will give it. True, our meetings do not occur very frequently and students hate to bother about mere parliamentary tactics, as long as the business in hand is quickly accomplished. But for this very reason, to avoid parliamentary haggling and to expedite matters, the chairman should know...
...Friend, C. M. 73 Brattle...
...that the college would undergo the expense of putting a firm staple in every bedroom above the first floor. Thereby were the lives of the students to be saved. "But how," some of our younger men of '88 may ask, "can we escape by means of a staple?" "Oh, friend, know once for all that this progressive university cannot carry out to the end all plans for your welfare, nor exercise a parential care over you, thus inculcating the first principles of independence of action. The lesson to be learned in this case is, that if you buy a rope...
...does the prosperity of the university end here. Owing to the fact that there will be over 500 students enrolled in the institution two new instructorships have been created. There is strong probability that there will be others established. There is good authority for the statement that a prominent friend of the university has recently donated 50,000 for the endowment of a professorship of moral philosophy ; and a gentleman prominent in that department has been tendered the position. The additions to Sibley College have been pushed during the summer months, and those at the Cascadilla place begun...
...appointed to see daily that no one plays without them. This measure has been taken as many men considered it honorable last spring to play without contributing to the cost of making new courts to have been given to the association by the college. A student may bring a friend who does not belong to the college on the grounds. The fall assessment of 75 cents may be paid to and tickets received from Mr. H. P. Peirson, 51 Thayer, every morning from...