Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last year at $8,236. Of this sum, a large portion came down as an indebtedness from the year before. Then, too, the money paid out by the Boat Club, is largely in excess of its actual expenditures. To explain this, it is necessary to speak briefly of the manner of keeping the accounts of the Boat Club. For the sake of simplicity, the annual report of the treasurer is a statement of all the money handed in to, and paid by, the Boat Club. In many of its money transactions, the Boat Club simply acts as an agent...
...cost of the crew last year was not as large as we supposed. We present a scaled statement of expenses. The different figures published by us on Tuesday, were partly due to the haste with which we looked over tho treasurer's report, and partly to the blind manner in which that report was published. But although the $1770 of old debts paid last year were not part of the actual running expenses for 1883 84, they, nevertheless, were a most important item in the expenses to be met that year, and when counted, bring the total to $6745. This...
...financial footing, is to subscribe more liberally to it. We take a just pride in our rowing record and in the club. Let the students subscribe liberal, but let them have their officers understand at the same time that they intend to hold them strictly to account for the manner in which it is spent. If the students subscribe enough for reasonable expenditures and for a reduction of the debt, the management cannot complain. If the students watch the officers closely by keeping acquainted with their accounts, their money is not so likely to be spent recklessly...
...times made the very reasonable request that the men in Sophomore Rhetoric should be more prompt in their attendance at his lectures, especially on Thursdays, when Professor Hill's lectures are read, These lectures are very long, and require the full hour to finish them, even in a hasty manner. Students are very ready to take advantage of an instructor's tardiness, but think nothing of interrupting him in the midst of his lecture. An instructor would be justified, we think, in refusing to allow men to enter the lecture room after he had begun his talk. But allowance should...
...that the freshman Glee Club has become an established institution, it is suggested that it sit on the fence and sing, to celebrate freshman victories, after the manner of the Yale club...