Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time for the meeting of the trustees for the election to fill the chair left vacant by Dr. McCosh's resignation draws near the interest among the students naturally increases, and there is much discussion as to who the future president is. It is rumored, and the rumor seems to be founded on facts, that Dr. Patton, of the Seminary, will be elected president, and Professor William Sloane, Professor of History in the college, will have a special office of vice-president created for him-a combination which gives the greatest satisfaction among the undergraduates...
...Turning Point" is a fairly good story, though one might wish that a theme that has been so well worn in the fiction of the modern and the ancient world and which our college papers have hitherto avoided as though by a better instinct, would be left to the treatment of master hands only. They might possibly be expected to show this episode in a new light. The melodramatic dens ex machina in the shape of a "golden star" is a bit wearying...
...found impossible to hold a meeting of the committee and to put the plan into operation until the beginning of the present college year, when Messrs. Brooks and Potter had left the University. The Base-Ball Association, the Foot-Ball Association, the Athletic Association, the Boat Club and the Tennis Association have accepted the plan under which this committee was chosen, and have presented their accounts for examination. They have also made estimates of their income and expenditure for the present year. This committee have to report on the accounts of these organizations in detail as follows...
...regulations, no overdue theme will be accepted, unless the writer satisfies the secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance. Overdue themes, countersigned by the secretary, may be left at Grays 18. In no case must themes be put in the box in Sever 3 after the day on which they...
...while the authorities fully realized the bad condition of things, that repairs and alterations were continually being made. If, however, those who use the bath-rooms early in the afternoon would only exercise proper care in using the water, there would be much less inconvenience. The water is wantonly left running, men abuse and smash the apparatus, and chairs and tables have actually had to be substituted for wire ropes on the large centre shower-bath because the latter were broken by men who used them as flying rings...