Word: resultants
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hope every man will carefully consider this and do all he can to bring about the desired result...
...connected with the University to vote. By this means we obtained 16 (sixteen) names. To obtain a majority, a man must obtain nine votes. Several men have not voted. Three have refused to vote on the score that they are not up in the game and men; and the result is that no one has attained the necessary majority. I am now as a last resource going to have the class elevens of this fall vote. I am rather in a trying position in this matter, as I have absolutely no precedent to go by and no way of finding...
...which has pervaded in the University in recent years. I believe that the professors in the literary department are agreed in the opinion that the introduction of the elective system into the last two or two and a half years of the collegiate courses has contributed much to this result. There has been in years past much undiscriminating criticism by some ultra-conservative college officers in the East of any attempt at modifying the iron-clad curriculum. But it is noteworthy that the very colleges which have been the sources of this criticism are themselves introducing the elective system into...
...annual race. The utmost efforts of the authorities were unable to keep all strange craft off the course during the last race. In fact our boat was nearly swamped by a passing steam-yacht. It is easy to imagine how much worse would be the result if the authorities took no charge whatever of the course during the race. This arrangement, advantageous to both parties, expired with the 1885 race and the conference decided to get the agreement renewed if possible...
...standard of board being provided that would cost $6.00 or $7.00, - Memorial would be relieved of the coming overflow. When Memorial is full there is every danger of high prices in Cambridge boarding houses. When they become too exorbitant, and it will take many years to effect this result, there will be the same call for a second dining association that brought the first into being. Under proper management two dining associations presenting different standards of board would operate together and not as rivals...