Word: held
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sophomores held a class-meeting on Friday the 6th inst., when it was decided to enter a crew at the spring races...
...Paul's Society. - The Rev. C. C. Grafton will lecture before the Society on Monday evening, March 16, instead of on Wednesday the 18th, as previously published. Litany services are held daily, except on Saturdays and Sundays...
...from the study of art, in Boston, are not fully appreciated. We have at least two good picture-galleries, where the latest productions of our own Boston artists are exhibited, together with occasional paintings of foreign schools. Then, too, there is the Boston Art Club, where frequent exhibitions are held during the winter months, to which admittance can with little trouble be obtained. To a real enjoyment of good pictures the technical knowledge of an art critic is by no means essential. In fact, the cardinal quality of a work of true genius is, that it commends itself...
...MEETING of the Sophomore Class was held on Friday, the 6th inst., to consider the affairs of the class as regards boating. After the meeting was called to order, Mr. Vanduzer, the assistant treasurer of the H. U. B. C., made a few remarks concerning the finances, of the club and most earnestly urged the Sophomores to pay their debt to it as soon as possible. Mr. Goodwin, the captain of the University, explained how the debt had arisen, and joined with Mr. Vanduzer in urging the class immediately to collect sufficient money...
THOUGH every day brings short-hand writing more into use, yet the notions held concerning it, both by the general public and by men in college, are still very erroneous. For the latter these mistaken ideas are particularly unfortunate, since short-hand can hardly be of greater benefit to any one than to those studying for a profession and constantly requiring notes of important lectures, in which each sentence contains a fact or suggestion not to be lost without injury. The life of professional men, too, presents many opportunities when the employment of a mode of writing four or five...