Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...great in importance. Usually there are not more than four men for each committee who deserve to be elected. But if eight or more nominations are made for each committee, and a number of Seniors are induced to vote for candidates whose chance of success is small, chiefly for reasons of personal loyalty, the election may miscarry. The committee which ought to have consisted of A and B and C or D may in the end be made up of B, X and Y, for the obvious reason that the majority which should have gone...
...found on the shelves of the Harvard College Library, but the greater part of the collection remained in the hands of his heirs. This part consists of over seven hundred volumes, many of them of great interest to the student of Romance Languages, not only of course by reason of their intrinsic value, but also because they contain annotations by Professor Lowell which reflect his originality of criticism and thorough scholarship...
...fourteen out of twenty former members, and sixteen candidates are now trying for the vacancies. Last year the club was not up to its usual standard, but this year it has an excellent chance for improvement. The Glee Club has as yet done very little rehearsing, for the reason that it is practically intact...
...neck. These injuries are but two of the many which have hampered the efforts of the coaches. Evidences of overtraining have existed and have made it necessary to give many of the men rests. Brown and Hale had to return home for a short time for this reason...
...question resolves itself into this: whether we wish to go to Soldiers Field on Saturday, to see an exhibition of manly sport, or to attend a musical festival. If the visitors from New Haven deem it a good opportunity to display their vocal talent, is that necessarily a reason why we should do likewise? Let us rather wait until the end of the game, and then, if the result has justified it, let us break forth into fitting paeans of victory...