Word: member
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Voted, that no guest of a member of the Dining Association should be brought into the hall for a period longer than one week during each College term. For any longer time permission must be obtained from the auditor...
...enabled to establish a chair in Sanskrit, - a subject for the tuition of which little financial provision was made. One instructor was kind enough to teach Sanskrit during a long time for - nothing. The same gentleman has still the charge of the Sanskrit instruction. He has been a member of the Faculty for a number of years long enough to entitle him to a Professor's chair according to President Eliot's own scheme of promotion. And yet when the time came to have a Professor of Sanskrit that instructor was passed over and a young man called to take...
...first prizes three were won by representatives of '82, and three by representatives of '83, all of whom will probably represent the College for the next two and three years at Mott Haven. In fact, the only member of the Team who will not be here next year is Mr. F. B. Keene, '80, who took second prize in the Standing High and the Pole Vault, so we may hope for some success next year, too, if the men will train carefully. The results of training were certainly capitally exemplified at our own Spring Meeting, as well as at Mott...
...previous committees. Class Day seems in danger of losing its exclusive and private character, and threatens to become a general holiday. People living near the College make it a day for entertaining their friends. An exceptional case has been brought to the attention of the Committee, where a member of a lower class refused to give up his room for Class Day on the ground that he himself would entertain on that day. Tickets have sometimes been sold at open sale. The Yard is often controlled by a crowd in which the class has no interest. In view of these...
...course no very great progress can be made in such limited time, even with the best master, but we cannot see that the section system would be an improvement, as instruction to a section of six for an hour is the same as reducing the time for each member to ten minutes instead of fifteen; for elocution is not a study which can be pursued like history or political economy. A lecture on the general principles, though perhaps interesting, would not be of much use. Instruction in elocution resembles more nearly a lesson in singing or music; instruction by sections...