Word: happened
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...those who habitually clip from the newspapers in the Reading-Room whatever items or articles happen to attract their attention had but a faint conception of the inconvenience to other members which is caused by the habit, I am sure they would buy a copy of the paper desired rather than mutilate a paper of which they are, by no means, the sole owners. A sees something in the Advertiser or Herald or World that he wants, and he cuts it out. Soon afterward I, B, hear of the article, which is, in all probability, general interest to Harvard students...
...uncertainty as to his fitness for the position. The acknowledged success of the Boylston prize declamation last June was mainly owing to his exertions, and we hope that the interest then aroused will continue among the students of all the classes. Certain it is, that if this does not happen, the fault will not be Mr. Riddle...
...unavoidable, or some determined effort made to put them on a substantial footing. A return to the system of class races seems probable, if the clubs are given up, and if they can be made races for eight-oars, it will undoubtedly be the best thing that could happen. There are now some five or six eight-oared shells on the rests at the boat-house, which could be used for class races for some years to come. It is sincerely to be hoped that rowing is not going to die out among us and become a lost art, though...
...must always happen that, with no consideration of the "softness" of courses, some will be chosen by a larger number of students than others, since it is more useful to most fellows to know French than Sanscrit, and Latin than music. Keeping a man from an agreeable and popular course will never drive him into a difficult and unpopular elective, but into another course that will not probably do him as much good as the one he would have chosen had he been at liberty...
...manner. No fixed number of cuts is allowed, but each man's case is treated by itself; hence it is impossible to regulate one's cutting by any fixed rule, and each must decide for himself what "abusing the privilege "means; and if any man's interpretation does not happen to agree with that of the Faculty, so much the worse for that...