Word: mention
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this fall to arrange the schedule of games, nothing was said before it of the probability that the Harvard faculty would forbid the New York game. But the Harvard manager spoke to the captain of the Yale eleven on the subject and was plainly given to understand that such mention of the possible difficulty was sufficient, and that if any difficulty should arise effort would be made to settle it agreeably to both parties. Now, however, the Yale captain declares that the question was one for the convention to settle and should have been brought up before it when...
...American Meteorological Jourual has decided to offer the following prizes: For the best original essay on tornadoes, or description of a tornado, $200 will be given. For the second best $50. Among those especially worthy of mention $50 will be distributed. The desire is to especially direct the attention of students to tornadoes. in hopes that valuable results may be obtained. The offer is open to all collegiate students of the United States, and the essays must be sent before July 1, 1889, either to Professor Harrington, Astronomical Observatory, Ann Arbor, Mich, or to A. L. Rotch, Blue Hill Meteorological...
Finally, as we have had occasion to mention in a previous issue, the college authorities have been obliged by law to put fire escapes into the rooms of the college buildings occupied by students. It would be seem, however, that the work is still incomplete. We have received complaints from various sources that the rooms in Holyoke House have not yet received proper attention, a fact which can be accounted for only by surmising that the authorities have considered that these rooms either are not exposed to the dangers of a great fire, or that the almost inaccessible iron fire...
...practice each day, or whether they will indulge in a halfhour of playfulness, such as they enjoyed yesterday afternoon, and let the shame of defeat show them the result of shilly-shallying and half-hearted practice. It they have regard for their own future prospects in college, not to mention the honor of their class and the university, there is but one course for them to follow. They must put an earnestness of purpose into their work such as has not marked their practice heretofore. Whether the present disposition of the eleven is the fault of the captain...
...other essays, deemed especially meritorious, silver medals, of original and improved design, will be awarded, with honorable mention of the authors in a public notice of the awards...