Word: recently
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There will be a meeting of the Conference Committee Monday afternoon to discuss the celebration of athletic victories. A large party in the faculty is urging the prohibition of inter-collegiat athletics on account of the recent disturbances...
...more technical articles it contains much to attract the attention of the average reader. An article on the "Battles of the Thirty Years' War," fully illustrated by maps, will be found an important aid to the work done in some of our history courses. The detailed account of recent events in Egypt and the Soudan, accompanied by an excellent map, is a timely addition to our information on current topics. Despite the announcement made by the Army and Navy Gazette, the United Service is not yet extinct...
From various entries in the journal we learn that "Harvard indifference" is not of recent growth. May 23rd, 1836, "all the officers except the junior secretary being absent, a committee was appointed to inquire the reason, and a long discussion took place on the infelicitous state of the society." At the next meeting a committee appointed "to concert measures to raise the character of the society and excite more interest in the exercises," recommended that "in order to secure the attendance of a fixed number of members so necessary for the improvement at which we aim, a new list...
...Rufus Ellis supports the prayer system at Harvard in a recent sermon, taking for his text, "I would that men should pray every where...
...faculty. We all know that it is no easy task to restrain the enthusiasm consequent upon a hard earned victory, but when a request is made by the faculty which contains so little that is objectionable to the undergraduate mind as the rules laid down in the recent circular contain, we think that the students are in duty bound to conform. As to the upper-classmen, we have no doubt that the request will be heeded. It may be that we are "counting our chickens" too early, but the verbum sap. had better be given at a venture than given...