Word: referring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sentence in the extract from the New York Tribune about the Yale crew, published in yesterday's HERALD, struck us as being rather significant, if it faithfully represents the undergraduate feeling at Yale in regard to the next Harvard-Yale race. The sentence we refer to is this : "Successive victories over Harvard at New London in the last two years have given an additional stimulus to aquatics at Yale, but neither this nor last year's brilliant prospects have brought over-weening confidence. Judging from the manner in which the crew works, one would think there were great odds...
...ways and means committee agreed this morning to refer the Sherman bill, the Randall bill and all other refunding propositions to a sub-committee, to be hereafter appointed. There is a strong feeling in the committee against all refunding propositions...
...institution rejoicing in the name "college" has been heard from. We refer to a college bearing the romantic name of Tufts, which, we learn, is situated somewhere in the outskirts of Boston. In our edition of last Tuesday we referred to a small band of men, presumably students, who were in the habit of amusing the public every week by walking down Washington street wearing the mortar-board, an English custom aped by some of our smaller American colleges, presumably for the purpose of giving them a somewhat "Englishy" look. A Tufts correspondent of the Boston Post, yesterday, gave...
...other case to which we refer, and which occasioned considerable comment at the time, was decided against a young man, Hawley by name, who applied for admission to the Indiana State Agricultural College, better known as the Purdue University. He tendered the required fees, affirmed that he was in all respects a fit person to be admitted to the institution, which he declared was maintained by donations from the General and State Governments, a tax-payer of which he was. Mr. Hawley had previously been a student at the university, and at the close of the term last spring...
EDITORS OF THE HARVARD HERALD: I wish to call the attention of the men who frequent the library to a practice many indulge in, which, to say the least, is very annoying. I refer to the habit of leaving the reserved books scattered all over the reading room. Men often take a book from the shelves for reference and, after they are done with it, let it lie on one of the tables instead of returning it to its proper place. This is the source of the greatest annoyance to many other men who wish to refer to the same...