Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...happy enough to commend the system to following classes. The system has theoretic strength, as is shown by the marked harmony of the class in its adoption, and, as far as one experiment furnishes a criterion, stands approved in its practical issue. As the matter is one of permanent interest, we shall be pardoned in dwelling for a moment upon the significance of the experiment to judge of its measure of success or failure. It is but fair to state that some doubts are cast upon the working of this system, which, like every other yet proposed, is vitiated...
...editors of the Acta Columbiana have endeavored to stimulate contribution and subscription, by offering a prize of $25 for "the best article on any subject of interest, except religion and politics," by an undergraduate subscriber. The judges are to be selected by the board of Editors from among the alumni. The article must be between 1, 000 and 2, 000 words in length...
...shall have a very commodious, convenient, and handsome boat-house. For the last few years nothing has so dampened the spirits of oarsmen and kept so many from rowing as the wretched condition of the boat-house. The removal of this drawback will, we hope, add to the general interest in boating. To keep everything in order hereafter, and to pay the running expenses, certain rules of the H. U. B. C. will be enforced in the spring more strictly than they have been hitherto. The running expenses will amount each year to a little more than five hundred dollars...
...should be guided by a wise spirit of forbearance from taking undue advantage of its embracing a majority of the class, or from discontent if its members are too small to entitle it to the lion's share. It must be remembered that all do not have an equal interest in the success of Class Day, nor do all contribute equally to that success, so that it is but fair that those men should be chosen for the more important places to whom the success of the arrangements is of the greatest importance. If petty jealousies are subdued...
...hoped that the members of the class of '77 will give this plan of erecting a class window their careful consideration, and if they arrive at a favorable conclusion concerning it, will not only evince their interest in the matter by taking the preliminary steps necessary for future action, but will also show their readiness to aid the work in a more substantial manner...