Word: previously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Natural History society held its second meeting of the season on Tuesday evening in Sever 4; Prof. Shaler presided. The committee of three, appointed at the previous meeting to investigate the constitution of the society, and to suggest such changes in it as seemed advisable, made their report, in which they recommended several important changes. One of these changes related to the admission of new members, and aimed at making the society in the future one of active naturalists only. According to the old constitution, amendments have to lie on the table two weeks before they can be acted upon...
...that those who have to do with athletic sports never make good scholars is fast passing away. It is not what a man knows but his ability to put into practice his knowledge that counts in this world. He then referred to the gentlemanly conduct of Cornell students in previous years at Saratoga and Lake George where their races are held, and hoped that they would keep up the good reputation of the college in this respect...
...afternoon was passed in speculating on the quality of the dinner to be served in Memorial, and anxiously awaiting the report of the Yale-Princeton game. The tables at Memorial were but thinly tenanted at dinner, and luckily, for the bill of fare was far inferior to those of previous years. When it became dark, the yard presented a most dreary spectacle, only a light here and there showing where some junior was grinding out the 1500 words of his forensic...
...their opponents, and withdrew in disorderly haste. With the exception of this incident the demonstration was a rousing success. The procession was an hour in passing a given point, -the dining hall, where a collation was spread. There has never been an affair of such magnitude recorded in the previous annals of the college...
...events have changed the aspect of the political horizon. Blaine and Logan have been elected to stay at home, and Cleveland has fulfilled the hopes of his party. The Democratic students now have their innings, and arrangements are now being perfected for a jollification which shall totally eclipse the previous efforts of the college...