Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Here is Harvard University, with an alumni roll in which the names reach well into the thousands, and most of whose living graduates are resident in Massachusetts, - yet but fourteen of her sons are found in the legislature of the state. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," and the dangers of incomplete education to-day are shown most clearly in the incompetent legislative acts which we tolerate from force of long habit. Though "the returns . . . . are not encouraging to any Harvard undergraduate," yet we trust that they may at least be stimulating, and that the seed now being sown...
...answers sent in to the chapel petition advocates the substitution of roll-call instead of voluntary chapel...
...absence of the proctors, and in all, seventy-five or a hundred to form quite an active colony around the wooden screen in the Memorial dining-hall. These were the men who moved about the yard Tuesday afternoon rather slowly and aimlessly, watching the trunks and bags roll out of the yard and catching glimpses of well-filled horsecars leaving Harvard Square, and finally climbing to their rooms with a feeling, the whole burden of which is contained in these two familiar words, "Left behind...
...attendance is very large, often reaching twenty-five or thirty, while an excellent rule, that three successive absences shall be equivalent to a resignation, insures constant, consecutive attendance. The second year has opened with a membership almost doubled, which is not confined to undergraduate students alone, for the roll contains the names of a number of graduate students...
...that the prominent college societies are open to them, we cannot understand why the students in the school are so few in number. We trust that the improvements made in the methods to be followed at the school will result in a satisfactory increase in the names on the roll...