Word: referring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...correspondent who writes in another column concerning changes in the Elective Pamphlet certainly seems to have some real grievance. He has set forth the true state of matters so fully that we need do no more than refer our readers to the article...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : I wish to mention a strange error (for I suppose it to be an error) in the arrangement of groups in the elective pamphlet for next year. I refer to the fact that Greek V. and Latin VII. are in the same group. Greek V. is the second course in Greek composition, and Latin VII. holds the same relative position among the Latin composition courses. It is absolutely necessary for a candidate for final honors in classics to take these two courses, and they both naturally come in the junior year. According to their present arrangement...
...Cornell suffers from the hands of those narrow minded persons who think that the fact that that college is not sectarian is conclusive evidence that it is not Christian. It says: "Cornell has a difficulty in the way of its development which few other colleges are troubled with. We refer to the hostile influence of the clergy. Sectarian preachers of all sorts, religions newspapers of every denominational shade, oppose us simply and solely because we are not denominational. It is their contention that the lack of an organic sectarianism here breeds irreligion among the students, binders their moral development...
This morning the ways and means committee will take up Mr. Gibson's sugar bill, providing for the use of the polariscope in appraising duty on sugar. The committee will refer it to the Secretary of the Treasury, who will be asked to state whether the polariscope will aid in preventing frauds on the government...
...themselves. It should not be forgotten that in nine postures out of ten assumed by the body at rest or in motion, the extremities are the most noticeable, and should be cared for accordingly. How many more flaring neckties we see than well-kept hands and nails? I refer more particularly to scarf-pins than neatly-fitting boots. You can guage a man's household accommodations by his dress and appearance; so beware lest people discover that you have but a small looking-glass, or that you have more trousers than neckties, and keep a large stock of boots rather...