Word: hired
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...interests of all common, and which shall be a boat-club in fact as well as in name, giving every member the opportunity of rowing. This plan could not be carried into effect immediately, but as soon as the clubs have bought and paid for the boats they now hire, - say in a year from now. It is as follows: That the subordinate clubs consolidate with the H. U. B. C., and that all the boats be the property of the new University boat-club so formed, and for the use of any member of it. There are a number...
...that it speaks well for the choir, which stands to-day the only exponent of refined musical taste in the College. The writer in the Advocate advises Professor Paine to petition the Faculty for a few hundred dollars to hire a decent quartette. Perhaps it would be well for the writer to get some of Professor Paine's ideas on the subject...
...marshals, committee-men, etc., are obliged to wear them, but the rest of the students follow their own inclinations in the matter. On Commencement Day, however, the wearing of gowns is obligatory. By no means do all the students own gowns, but the majority, when occasion demands, hire them from the janitor, who always keeps them on hand, the charge therefor being $1.50 apiece. It seems as though a plan like this might be successfully introduced here in Cambridge, and be a source of advantage to both owner and student, for the former would gain a large percentage...
This is not necessarily the result of neglect of work, but of the positive inability of many to master or appreciate the study of mathematics; and students who cannot solve knotty problems themselves are obliged to hire tutors to do it for them; thus the training of the mind, the stock argument in favor of mathematics, becomes applicable to the tutor who does the work, but has no effect upon the student for whom it is intended...
...College deduct from the rent of each room an amount equal to that paid the goody for keeping it in order. Then let the occupant of each room hire a goody on his own account, to be paid by himself, and whom he may dismiss if her duties are neglected...