Word: secret
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Institute of 1770 last evening. The subject was, "Resolved, that an executive committee ought to be appointed from the college to confer with the faculty on subjects of interest to the students." The affirmative were Messrs. Trask and McArthur; the negative, Messrs. S. E. Winslow and Halbert. The secret ballot on the question was in the affirmative. The ballot on the merits of the debate was in favor of the negative. The debate was then thrown open to the house, and a very sharp discussion showed the manifest interest of all present. The final vote was in favor...
...hallway, parlor, smoking-room, library and matron's suite of rooms; the second floor will contain four suites of rooms, with a study and bedroom for each suite, and a large bath-room; the third floor will have three suites of rooms and a fine lodge room for the secret meetings of the society. The total cost is estimated...
...rumor has been going the rounds of the college that the faculty has in view the suppression of all secret socities. This idea was made public recently in a Boston paper, which stated that a committee had been appointed with a view to forbidding the existence of these societies. The prevailing idea, however, is entirely erroneous. A special committee has been appointed by the faculty to consult with students in regard to changing some of the public, and possibly the private, forms of initiation. There is no thought of suppressing the societies, and the action in regard to initiations will...
...tells it all: "They stole his peanuts." No ordinary case this of personal assault, of demolishing property or of like indignity, but a bold and malignant robbery. We are not told the full particulars of the awful story; but it is surmised that there exists at the college a secret band of sophomores whose dark and wicked design it is to prey upon the freshmen in all manner of means. Through some unknown source these conspirators got wind of the possession of a quantity of peanuts by the aforementioned freshman - a parting gift from a fond mother or perhaps...
...with a degree. He may not be willing, but if he is willing, he will always, as they say, be more efficient, better able to give and take, more persistent, more sensible of duty to the work itself, and, above all, better able to manage men, that first secret of fortune in almost all departments of life. The graduates, they declare, even if they keep shops or supervise building yards or manage ranches in Colorado, always try for the biggest things, and see far better than merely experienced men to what their work may lead, and what is the most...