Word: lated
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...present wasted, by the proposed plan the hours from 6 to 8 will be lost. Supposing that three hours' work is to be done in the evening, this will be finished, not at 9 or 9.30, but at 11. In regard to the injuriousness of late study we will say nothing; but those who do not approve of it would be forced into it by late dinners, and the larger portion of the hard students, those who intend to do the heavier part of their work in the evening, would find themselves in no fit condition to accomplish much...
...those who board at Memorial Hall, still another consideration presents itself. By late dinners the gas expenses, already sufficiently large, will be increased, as the waiters and other employes will be engaged in clearing up till a very late hour. Nor is this all. Men will not be satisfied, after being without food for five hours, and running to and from recitations during this time, with nothing but bread and butter and a cup of tea at noon, but it will be necessary to place before them a large quantity of meat not required now at tea, because the interval...
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of the deceased as a token of respect to and remembrance of our late classmate...
...rapidly assuming the form of a myth; an unfortunate member of that devoted class was heard sadly to remark that he had had five examinations, two themes, and one forensic in four weeks, and had just been grievously harassed in the Dean's office for being half an hour late with his second theme. Occasional examinations are, doubtless, a great preventive of cramming; but if forty examinations besides the "goes" are to be given, the Junior Class of '75 will become extinct...
...question of adopting a system of late dinners seems destined to thorough discussion, and it certainly merits debate, for such a change would involve an alteration in the daily regime of every man in College. A rough sketch of the arguments thus far brought forward would give, for late dinners, the consideration of health; of convenience to the crews, etc., in gaining the time from 2 to 4; and the argument that a man can do his three hours' work in the evening better, if he has already had an hour's exercise, than if he puts that hour...