Word: omit
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...breaks a best American college record) claimed on that day. In connection with the sports, we cannot refrain from expressing our pleasure at the action of the Faculty in granting the Association an afternoon in the week for their games, as well as liberty to all instructors to omit their recitations on that afternoon. It shows how willing is the Faculty to co-operate with the students in their sports, whenever it can be done consistently with good judgment, and we heartily congratulate ourselves that such is the case...
...happy to be able to state that the annual concert of the Glee Club will be given in Sanders Theatre the latter part of April or early in May. It has been the general impression that the Glee Club would be compelled to omit the annual concert on account of the Greek Play, in which it is to take so prominent a part. The Club deserves more than ever the support of the College; we do not say this because it has not been well supported in former years, but because this year it has worked faithfully to bring renown...
...names of the college and the individual winners to be inscribed on the cup. $25 additional was subscribed by the College Athletic Association to be added to this fund. The chair appointed Messrs. W. B. Parsons, '79, Columbia; and W. G. Twombley, '79, Harvard. It was then moved to omit the standing high and standing broad jumps from the programme, but after a heated discussion, the former motion was lost, the latter, however, eventually being passed. The aggregate weight of the tug-of-war teams was limited to 600 pounds. Lafayette College, of Easton, Pennsylvania, was admitted; and the Executive...
...have been obliged this week (as once before this year) to omit our Sporting Column, owing to the great press upon our columns...
...themselves important, are absolutely valueless compared with the advantages of a thorough knowledge of English. The evil is the greater in that the preparatory schools - as far as the classical courses are concerned - are obliged, by the strain and worry of preparing boys for their severe entrance-examinations, to omit or neglect, in great degree, the study of English composition and grammar; while the lack of time for gaining even an elementary knowledge of our own literature brings about a most deplorable result, - young men enter college skilled in mathematics and classics, but positively ignorant of their mother tongue...