Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...growth of sentiment is away from declamation which perhaps once flourished in the University, and toward debate. This is shown by the fact that the Boylston Prize contests which used to pack Sanders Theatre now gather hardly a handful. The intercollegiate debates on the contrary are better attended and attract more interest each year. The College offers no opportunity for training in declamation while there has been a substantial growth in the instruction given in debate. English 6 has increased in numbers and English 30 has been added; English 10 looks toward debate rather than declamation...
...seems to have been a good deal of uncertainty concerning the committee's negotiations with the Corporation in regard to the "Tree." As was stated in our first letter the Corporation pointed out to us many difficulties in the present form of the Tree Exercises and urged us to gather the opinions of the class concerning the changes proposed. We have asked for expressions of opinion and, in several ways, have, we believe, gathered the general opinion of the class. During the past week or two we have tried to meet the Corporation to get a final decision, but have...
Particular attention is called to the rule forbidding any but the committee and tellers to gather around the chairman's desk. Conformation to all the regulations is earnestly requested...
...little by individual action; concerted action is necessary. Therefore, let such bodies of students as the members of the Hasty Pudding, the Pi Eta, the Institute of 1770, and the Delta Upsilon proclaim openly their support of the movement, and there will be formed a nucleus round which will gather hundreds of men who are simply waiting for leaders...
...thick as about Boston and they find it hard to keep in touch with the spirit of their Alma Mater unless they have some direct message from Cambridge itself. The uniform effect of the coming of the musical clubs or of President Eliot to a western city is to gather together the Harvard alumni and to revivify the Harvard Club of that part of the country. Now that the Faculty have taken away one of the means whereby the western graduates can keep in touch with Harvard, they should, I think, take particular pains that the other does not fail...