Word: joined
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Annex," but it has a pond. And it has a clay pit where the crew can practice throwing stones. But the unique character of Tufts is shown in the students and their societies. Every man in the college is a society man, or is being solicited to join some society. It is either Alpha Omega or Omega Alpha. O. A. does not know A. O. and to be a non society man is to be wholly unknown...
...will not do to wait till spring, and then join. If this be attempted, the grass upon the grave of this once flourishing society will be as green as the most verdant freshman in the freshwater colleges of Ohio. Now is the time, now is the opportunity, and now, we are sure, are plenty of men ready and willing to put their shoulders to the wheel and help the society out of the mire in which a too sanguine management has placed...
...moved that the society be left open for two weeks longer, in hopes of raising the $600 in the mean time. It was carried unanimously. Meanwhile $67 was subscribed on the floor, and swelled the subscription fund to $417. After much discussion, Mr. Merriam moved that the subscription to join the society for the rest of the year be made $1.50, and the cheap opportunity to get the benefits of the percentage be left open for two weeks only. This motion was carried...
...amount could be raised, if necessary. But let not the students, therefore, be relax, and fail to subscribe, Let every member go to the Co-operative office, and put down his name for whatever amount he feels like contributing. Let every man in college who is not a member join at once, and not longer enjoy benefits which are paid for by others. Some have failed to join the society out of carelessness ; others, contemptible specimens of humanity,-we feel sure they cannot be many in number-have made use of their friends' tickets to effect their own purchases...
...daily papers are to some extent commenting on the ill-judged action of the Washington Harvard Club in refusing to allow certain members of the alumni to join the club, the only ostensible reason for their refusal being the fact that the candidates in question were colored. In other respects they were admitted to be of sufficient merit to be enrolled among the august assembly which thus sets itself up to judge its fellow men. One of the rejected candidates was the gentleman graduated last June, who read a commencement part on the history of his race since...