Word: persons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...DAILY CRIMSON. - Allow me to say a few words in favor of starting a reading-room. As the project was stated the other night, it seems that the assessment will be but $1.50, and in the case of members of the Harvard Union, $1.00. For this small sum a person will have access to the leading New York and Boston dailies, as well as those from Chicago, San Francisco and the South. Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's, Life, and Puck will be in the list. The London Graphic, Illustrated News and Punch, with possibly a German and a French...
...society, and shall have been proposed by the executive-committee, shall be eligible to election as a member. A four-fifths vote of the members present taken by ballot shall constitute an election. Upon the payment of one dollar and signing the constitution of the society, the person elected shall become a member...
...class of '86 contains an "offensive partisan" in the person of Mr. W. G. Webster, late of the Treasury department, Washington, D. C. Mr. Webster entered the service under competitive Civil Service Examination, but spent his vacation last fall in making campaign speeches. The New York Times noticed his first efforts as follows: Princeton, N. J., Sept. 26, 1884. Tonight, Mercer Hall was filled with college students to hear the first political speech of the campaign in the college Mr. W. G. Webster of Illinois, recently of Michigan University, spoke stirringly and in an eloquent manner. The meeting was enthusiastic...
...course than they can ever obtain by hearing some of their own number repeat in a more crude way the things which they either know already or have written in their note books. Much valuable time seems to be unnecessarily lost, especially in the larger courses. There, each individual person ought to have a correspondingly shorter time, but that is a thing that but few instructors can guage. The object of the instructors is to tell men what they cannot find out elsewhere, except, perhaps, without a great waste of energy. Everyone who has taken careful and full notes...
...following rather curious piece of composition was placed upon the blackboard at a teacher's institute, and a prize of a Webster's dictionary offered to any person who could read and pronounce every word correctly. The book was not carried off, however, as twelve was the lowest number of mistakes in pronunciation made...