Word: parteing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...second part of the original motion was now taken up. Mr. Warren moved that Mr. Fenno, '64, Mr. Ames, '66, and Mr. Roberts, '71, should be appointed a committee to confer with the Executive Committee, and that they should together decide whether delegates should be sent to represent Harvard at the Convention that meets in New York, January 4, or whether an announcement should be sent that Harvard has withdrawn. This motion was unanimously carried, and the meeting adjourned...
...supported by Mr. Warren, of '75, who thought, too, that we owed something to the colleges who had beaten us while we were in the association, and that if we withdrew we should offer to row them, after or before any other race in which we might take part...
...first part of Mr. Wetmore's motion was then discussed alone, namely, "Resolved, that it is the express desire of this meeting that Harvard should withdraw from the association...
...trial will be held peculiarly decisive, it becomes the obvious duty of Seniors to avail themselves but sparingly of the privilege of cutting. Like the orator who spoke not to his audience but to posterity, the Seniors should feel the gravity of their position. It rests in great part with them to assure the continuance of the institution, and we trust it is only necessary to mention the matter...
...post-graduate instruction. We published last year an article describing a new university which had been founded by Mr. Hopkins solely to give post-graduate instruction, in which the writer pointed out how much Harvard was already doing, and how much more she could have done, even with a part of the endowment, than the new institution can hope to do for a long time. This year Harvard has made a still greater advance, and established twenty-five courses especially for graduates. Why should not some millionnaire earn a part of the glory of the founder of our College...