Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...president for the ensuing year. B. H. Hayes was elected class secretary in place of Gerrish Newell, who has left college. It was also voted that the president should appoint a committee to write G. Newell, ex-secretary, a letter expressing the appreciation felt by the class for his past services and the general regret at his absence...
President Eliot was the first speaker. "Each year, for several years past," he said, "more than 1000 young men have joined this university at this time, and this year is no exception. This coming of the new men is a joyful time for them, but for us there is something solemn. This old ship carries a precious cargo, and hardly any one of us can avoid feeling a sense of responsibility. But on each one of you some share of this burden falls from the time when you become a member of this association of men. This is an association...
...part, but they illuminate the lives of all who in future shall become members of this University. We are all associates with a common interest and common credit to win in the future. It is pretty hard to realize just what this descending honor from the men in the past and this ascending honor from us, means. We have to get at it from examples, and I take two examples from men who have died this summer." President Eliot then told of the lives of Professor Child and Ex-Governor Russell, and showed how through their lives they had proved...
During the past summer the changes in the interior of University Hall, proposed last year, have been carried out, with the result that the accommodations have been much improved. The offices of the Dean and the Recorder have been removed from Room 5 to Room 4 on the first floor. What was formerly the Recorder's office has been fitted up into two small offices for the use of the Recording Secretary and the Corresponding Secretary. The President's room remains the same as formerly. The old University examination room has been fitted up into a room for the meetings...
...several men in Ninety-six are unwilling to join their classmates in striving for the flowers, saying that they are opposed to the custom. It is not unnatural to impute immediately another much more unworthy motive to the men who take this position. It is well known that in past years some few men have refused to enter the scrimmage through simple laziness, which it would be a kind of flattery to call indifference. It is plain that it is somewhat irksome and involves a little trouble to put on a football suit, and that it seems inconsistent with...