Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the regulations for Classday are being decided upon, I should like to remind the college in general, and the seniors in particular, that the question of admitting freshmen to the tree exercises is agitated each year at the wrong time. By anticipating it, considerable trouble and any feeling of unjust treatment on the part of '87 will be averted, if it be settled at the beginning of the year once for all; and certainly a spirit of fairness would suggest that a final decision now-before the freshmen have begun to look upon it as a right requiring columns...
...wish to remind all members of the Tennis Association that no order for marking a court can be received by me unless accompanied by the regular fee of fifty cents for a double and thirty-five cents for a single court...
...committee on the dinner of the Institute of 1770, which is to take place next Monday at Young's Hotel, desire to remind the members that all who wish to go must hand in their names before tonight to some member of the committee. The price per plate...
...American college life. A student from Oxford or Paris who visits one of our colleges is surprised to find many of the students decorated with breast-pins, inscribed with Greek characters. These insignia are sometimes wrought in strange forms, such, perhaps, as Anchorites of old kept in view to remind them of death and the grave. On being informed that these ornaments, with their strange devices, are badges of secret fraternities of a social or literary character, the foreigner is curious to inquire into the nature of the secrets which are so carefully guarded, the existence of which however...
...regret that it should be necessary to again remind any seniors of the necessity of sitting for their class photographs. It is not fair treatment of the photograph committee nor of the other members of the class for men to delay their sittings until so late in the year. The work of the chairman of the photograph committee is irksome enough in any case, even when each member of the class does his part willingly; and when men shirk their share of the work and make it necessary for the chairman to continually remind them of their delinquency - a duty...