Word: held
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Alumni dinner in 1874, the first that was held in Memorial Hall, the question was discussed as to whether the erection of a hall here at college to commemorate those who had fallen in the late war would tend to keep alive the unpleasant recollections of the war, and whether Southern men would be debarred by it from the University...
This question was answered negatively by Judge Devens, and more particularly by General Bartlett. These gentlemen sustained their position by announcing the principle, - that it is the spirit not the cause, which makes the glory of fighting; Southerners, they held, would feel no mortification from the erection of the hall, for they would appreciate that those in whose memory it was built, though they fought against the South, did so from principle; the Southerners too, being actuated by a like principle, would deserve and receive like praise; it was not principle, but the mere circumstance of living in Massachusetts...
...MEETING of the Athletic Association will be held in the Gymnasium next Saturday morning at 10.45. The Rules to govern the contests, March...
...Tabular View tells us that from April 1st all the morning exercises will be held an hour earlier than at present; that prayers will come at a quarter before seven, and that recitations will begin at eight. Why this change should be made it is hard to see. The present arrangement is very satisfactory to all concerned, and it is certain that the new one will be decidedly unsatisfactory to many students, and presumably to such professors as are obliged thereby to be at the post of duty as the clock strikes eight...
...Junior class held a meeting on Tuesday last to take action on the death of their classmate, Francis Edward Sedgwick. The following resolutions were read and adopted...