Word: information
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...notices posted in the Yard inform us that Class Day is coming, and that tickets can be obtained by Seniors, if they apply at the proper place at the proper time. But the Seniors do not seem to realize the importance of making timely preparation for the day, and of sending their invitations at an early date. We are therefore requested by the Class Day Committee to call their attention to the posters, and to urge them to avoid needless delays...
...regards music is not one that does her any credit. True, from the Catalogue we learn that she has a musical professorship and some five courses in music that are pretty well attended. Placards posted from time to time in the Yard, and brief accounts in the Advocate, inform us that a series of concerts is being given at the Sanders Theatre. The College herself has done her share; it is we who are to blame, and justly so, for Harvard's reputation as a college that takes little interest in music...
This proceeding, then, was one of the customs of the Memorial boarders! Is it gentlemanly, when a person is guilty of a breach of decorum, to inform him of his error by becoming guilty likewise? "No," said I, "I will stick by the club." And I fell into a gloomy mood, induced more by the thought of the present depravity of the youth and beauty than by any regret for their future fate...
...seems but fair to inform those Freshmen who failed to make up "Classical Lectures" that the paper was not set nor the books marked by the last year's instructor, whose offer to do so was declined...
SINCE the beginning of the term I have received three invitations from University 5. Whenever I want to inform a friend of the fact I am in doubt as to the correct expression. Ought I to say that I have had three summons or three summonses? The notices on the bulletin boards seem to sanction the latter form. Then must I say that I am summoned or summonsed? If I have received three summonses, it is only consistent to say that I have been three times summonsed...