Word: roll
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...executive committee this fall, we must hope that its action will be energetic and that the men appointed by it to raise money in college and from the graduates will do their work as though they really had their task to heart. This will make money roll in for a good cause...
...Total Abstinence League during the present college year. In this time three public meetings were held at which addresses were delivered by Prof. Wm. James, Ex-Governor John P. St. John, Hon. John B. Finch, Col. Geo. W. Bain, and General Swift. The total number of members on the roll is 148. Number now in college, 105. Forty-nine men have been added, and four have been removed through resignations...
...still young in years and that it was founded in the midst of bitter opposition in a university where moderate drinking is very prevalent, and of whose large faculty the name of but one member, all honor to him for it, is to be found on the roll, we have no reason to be discouraged with the year's work. Since all that the society requires of a man is to take his place in the ranks and then stand, our influence must be largely in proportion to our numbers, and we, therefore, most earnestly invite all men of total...
...ever since come under the care and personal supervision of the monarchs of England, who frequently were visitors on account of the nearness of the school to Windsor Castle. From a paltry hundred, including masters and fellows, the attendance has now increased to 850 scholars alone, and the roll of instructors equals many a small college. As in the case of most of the large English schools, all the governing power was first centered in the provost and masters, but this absolute rule was soon changed by an act of Parliament ; and now, in Eton, as in all other schools...
Your letter of April 18 is before me. As for your first inquiry, I should be in favor of granting a petition that attendance upon moring prayers be made purely voluntary. I never thought well of blending a religious exercise and a police regulation, i.e., roll-call...