Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter of college discipline is simplifying here yearly, and, in his report on this subject, the dean merely voices and opinion that is held by every one, when he states that order is kept principally by the college sentiment as a whole. All in all, the university at large has every reason to feel proud of the advancement and progress which Harvard is making year by year in every direction. And we shall have every reason to be gratified if the next report shows as successful a year as the last...
...given his vote for the change, but before the result could be announced by the president, the not infrequent excitement of a small bonfire on the steps of University Hall interrupted the proceedings of the faculty. After the bonfire he changed his vote, and six o'clock prayers were kept another year by a majority of one. On hearing the result he intimated that early rising would keep people out of mischief at night, and he certainly felt that six o'clock prayers would be unpleasant to the makers of the bonfire. Let us hope that they were...
...admirable manner in which the incidents were acted. The leading parts were all acted with remarkable power and ease. Peithetairos spoke his eight hundred lines as readily as if Greek were the only language he knew, without an instant's pause or cessation of vivacity, and Euelpides kept the audience in constant laughter by his comic appearance and his ridiculous "business." The intelligence with which every actor contrived to render his own part an essential feature in the fun of the play was the most striking feature of the performance. Euelpides, for instances, when he was on the stage...
Fifteen tables were kept set at Memorial Hall for the accommodation of the students remaining in Cambridge during the recess...
...head. In 1861, its 700 students went almost in a body to the field. during the war a handful of professors maintained the outward show of instruction, joining the army in some instances for the summer vacation. The spacious buildings were a hospital for the Confederate soldiers, kept choked by the costly battles fought near by. When the war was done, the wearied people turned slowly to the thought of education, and the university regained its lost place slowly. Last year, esteemed a comparatively prosperous one, 330 students were enrolled, and this number is not likely to be hotably increased...