Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...winter and a field meeting in the spring. Tug-of-war pulling is one of their specialties, as several Harvard teams have found out to their cost. Social clubs and entertainments among the students are few. There is a glee club and orchestra, both of recent date, and two secret societies, to 2 G, composed of miners. and a chapter of the Gamma Sigma Upsilon, the civil engineers society. Hops at the gymnasium, a senior ball, and class suppers complete the slender round of amusement for the men of the Institute. The hard work required certainly turns out very capable...
...question was, Resolved, That the District System of electing a President, as proposed by Senator Morton, should be adopted. The secret ballot on the merits of the question resulted in 15 votes for the affirmative, and 7 for the negative. The following men spoke as principal disputants, aff., E. W. Frost, L. S., and E. I. Smith, '85, neg., A. G. Webster, '85, and O. F. Hibbard, L. S. On the vote on the merits of argument of principal disputants, the affirmative received 33 votes, the negative 1. When the debate was thrown open to the house, the following gentlemen...
...Surely we are not going to admit that we are unable to accomplish what other colleges have successfully done. If no other method of choosing a student committee seems practicable, we might imitate, in part, the system which is followed in the selection of the men for the great secret societies of Yale. One representative, or perhaps two, might be elected from each of our secret societies, from each of the athletic organizations, from each college paper, and from the men who are not identified with any of these interests. In this way a body of students would be secured...
...debate of the Union last night was well attended and very interesting. The question was "Resolved, that the enfranchisement of the Negro, as accomplished by the 15th amen linnet, was a mistake." The secret ballot on the merits of the question resulted in 13 votes for the affirmative, and 43 for the negative. J. M. Merriam, '86, opened for the affirmative, and B. G. Davis, '85, for the negative. These gentlemen were followed by L. M. Garrison, '88, aff., and P. L. Sternbergh, '87, neg. The vote on the merits of the arguments of principal dispatants stood...
...Shakspere Club continues the work so successfully begun at its recent public meeting, we may look for a decided improvement in the speaking at the competition for the Boylston prizes in May. Actual practice, and a good deal of it, is the great secret of success in all kinds of public speaking. The Shakspere Club furnishes such opportunities to its members, and thereby fills a long felt want in the study of elocution at Harvard...