Word: secret
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thoroughly incompetent. He advised, therefore, his discharge and the employment of another man. At his suggestion overtures were made to many oarsmen, Wallace Ross among the number. None could be obtained, and now Cook says he is here to pull the crew through, if possible. He claims that the secret society influence will have nothing to do with assigning places to the crew. In direct contradiction to this statement, comes the fact that John C. Adams, of Oakland, Cal., has resigned from the third senior society. Nicholas Minor Goodlett, Jr., '86, of Evansville, Ind., has also resigned from the same...
...right method to pursue to keep the work of the crew a profound secret to outsiders until, say, within one week of the race, and if any possible good can be expected from such a method, everybody would gladly acquiesce for the sake of expected success, but whenever a member of the crew is asked a question, mysterious winks and dubious monosyllabic replies are all the satisfaction usually obtained. When the university crew is beaten in a two mile race by a class crew, no explanation is offered and the old, old threadbare subterfuge is adopted, the blind, unreasoning method...
Found out at last. We have been keeping it a secret for years: "It is not strictly true that the Harvard DAILY CRIMSON is printed in its own office, and that two compositors are employed by the paper throughout the college year. The CRIMSON is printed in the office of H. E. Lombard, of Cambridge-port, and has been so printed for three years. The office is owned by him, and the CRIMSON is printed under contract, and the management has nothing to do or say with regard to the men who are employed." - Boston Globe...
Thursday morning the Yale Corporation held an election for president, to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of President Porter. The nominations were secret, yet it is thought that the following gentlemen were the candidates: Professor Timothy Dwight, President Francis A. Walker of the Mass. Institute of Technology, President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University, and Professor Brush of the Yale Scientific School. A number of ballots were taken without result, but on the final ballot, Professor Timothy Dwight, professor of sacred literature in the Yale Divinity School, was unanimously elected. Professor Dwight will be inaugurated the day following commencement...
...evening by joining in the jolly, rattling choruses which college men alone can sing. Nowadays all this is changed. Night after night the silence of the yard is unbroken, save by the whistling of some chance passer. The Glee Club saves its energies for more dignified concerts. The great secret societies no longer "sing through the yard." Even within the last four years, student song has entered upon a marked decline. It was no uncommon thing in the spring of '83 to hear a merry chorus from some small knot of men lying lazily on the grass...