Word: mention
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boating relations of Yale and Harvard are at this moment so strained that their rupture seems inevitable. The mere mention of this fact, says Alden of the Times, is enough to throw a gloom over the entire country and to discourage the friends of education all over the world. The cause of the trouble is not definitely known, but it is understood that as to certain important educational matters-such as the choice of the place where the annual boat-race is to be held and the selection of a referee-the representatives of the two universities are hopelessly divided...
...paragraph in yesterday's Boston Herald makes mention of the proposition for a consolidated nine at Harvard, but adds that the prospects of such a scheme are not encouraging. We hardly believe that matters are as hopeless as the Herald correspondent puts it. Indeed, we have reason to think that by a very little effort on the part of the managers of base-ball, the project might readily be brought to a successful issue. The advantages of the scheme are obviously commendable, and the objections to its inauguration seem mainly to consist of the fear that this extra nine will...
...which enables a man to think continuously and accurately. This is what "Harvard's degree will mean." The system of second-year and final honors is directed to this end, requiring independent and self-directed work. Besides these provisions to secure concentrated and coordinated work, the system of "honorable mention" also works as a stimulus to this end. "The result of this double system is that it is fast becoming 'bad form,' to graduate without the one or the other of these two distinctions...
...freshmen were naturally "riled" at this insult, and for more than an hour on each of two consecutive days an indiscriminate mauling match was carried on. Both sides claimed the victory, but the classes were about evenly matched in the number of missing shirts and broken Derbys, not to mention heads. As far as your correspondent can see, the only persons benefitted by the rush were the hatters and haberdashers...
...association for gross negligence, or, what is just as bad, utter incapacity for the duties assigned to them. We would like to ask who would satisfy the claims of the aggrieved parties if the hall should be closed on the date assigned. Never before has there been occasion to mention any such a serious fault as this in the financial department of the association, and, with no desire to be severe or unjust, we ask that the matter be thoroughly examined. Once for all, now that the affairs of Memorial have thrust themselves upon us, let us remove all opportunities...