Word: references
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to call attention to an abuse which may seem trifling, but which nevertheless causes infinite annoyance. We refer to the practice of shuffling feet, slamming note books, coughing, and making other disagreeable noises which has lately been so freely indulged in towards the close of recitations. The hour is not over till the bell rings. The last few minutes of the hour sometimes contain the pith of the lecture. It is not only boyish, but inconsiderate and ill-bred to prevent men who have gone to the lecture for the purpose of hearing it from profiting by those last...
...communication published in another column, the management of the Glee club refer to our editorial article of March 1 as containing "indefinite and absurd charges." We wish to inform these gentlemen that our criticism was based upon complaints from members of the club itself. We can name some of the members "who are so disgusted with the management of the club that they are ready to resign." We have yet to find any one who considers the record of the club through the autumn and winter as good as its record in recent years. Even the management of the club...
...superiority of his new system of shorthand. This course will be arranged so as not to interfere in the least with the regular course at college. By this new methed a thorough mastery of the shorthand art can be easily acquired in three months. We shall be pleased to refer you to Harvard students who are now pursuing the study with us. All are welcome...
DEAR SIRS.- Allow me to call attention to one source of the disorder and inefficiency in the Co-operative which I have had in mind for some time and which seems to have escaped general notice. I refer to the fact that Mr. Waterman the superintendent when he went into business in Boston on his own account, took with him, drafting off into his own business, most of the best clerks and employees of the Co-operative, and turned most of the work of the Society over to new hands. No store or business house could stand that, you know...