Word: mention
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What first led you to think of going to college? Mention the time and age of entering. Mention any difficulties you encountered in getting your education. Were you absent during your college course? Why? Where...
Year, month, day and place of birth. Father's name, profession or business, and present residence. Mother's name before marriage, and of her parents. Date of marriage. Mention any interesting events in the lives of either parent. If dead, date, place and cause of death. Pedigree on your father's side as far back as possible, mentioning ancestors in any way distinguished, and giving occupation and residence of as many as possible. Ancestral line of your mother's family in briefer form. What ancestors or relatives have graduated at Harvard, and when...
Were you an editor of any of the college papers? State what prize or honors you obtained, if any. Of what college societies were you a member? Mention any offices you held in these societies; also any class or college appointments. State any positions you held in either the freshman or University crew, nine or eleven. Name any prizes in athletic contests which you have received. With whom did you room? In what studies were you especially interested...
...state that I have long regarded the matter of attendance on all religious exercises and observances as something which should be purely voluntary in every instance, for which reason it certainly seems to me now that I should favor the granting of such a petition as that which you mention...
...understand that the managers of the Freshman crew are meeting with some difficulty in securing the payment of the subscriptions which have been made by the members of the class. We hope that the mere mention of the fact will cause every one to reflect upon the trouble which is thus occasioned the managers, and by so doing bring about a speedy removal of this source of annoyance...