Word: older
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have previously announced, the first trial of candidates for the Glee Club takes place tonight in Roberts' Hall. The Glee Club has need this fall of a large number of good voices both because many of the older members have left college and because the membership is to be somewhat enlarged. We urge, therefore, that the musical men of the college and particularly of the freshmen class, will present themselves for a trial even though they may feel some diffidence. The larger the number of candidates and the greater the interest, the better will be the Glee Club...
...college of Mexico is the oldest college in America, being fifty years older than Harvard...
...success, and it would be a still greater pity if the faithful members should find themselves so handicapped next fall by lack of support from the upperclassmen that they could not find heart to attempt a revival of the society. The fault lies, we believe, with the older members who have allowed their attention to be drawn off by other things. At any rate, it is upon the shoulders of the members from Eighty-eight and from Eighty-nine that the blame must rest if the Pierian keeps the down-bill path, it seems to be taking. Every...
...Graduate Department and of the offices of the University who are members of the Dining Association. This addition was asked for in order that the management might be strengthened by the presence in the Board of Directors of some one who would reflect the opinions of the older men of the Association. The representation from the Scientific School was abolished because of the very small number of men dining in the Hall who are enrolled in that department. The members of the Scientific School will vote for officers in the future with the classes of the college corresponding to their...
...graduates that the present system was unjust to the students. A fair statement of the case to the faculty was therefore decided upon. In order to show that the movement was not local and was not confined to a few men, the signatures of over two hundred of the older graduates were collected. The idea originated with the Harvard Club of New York; It was distinctly a graduate movement, and has been carried out without the assistance and knowledge of the undergraduates...