Word: sections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Senior Class Elections are over at last. Although the meeting was a protracted one, there were but few incidents to disturb its harmony, and the result, we may hope, satisfied the class. The demonstrations made at one stage of the proceedings were highly reprehensible; any one section should learn to respect the choice of the majority, and to do otherwise is an insult to the class. As usual, the larger share of the offices fell to one society, rather in the natural course of events than from any preconcerted action, and, in one or two cases, by the votes...
LAST year, when the section in Natural History IV. was so large, the place of recitation was removed from the Zoological Museum, where it was for the first part of the term, to Sever. This was a great gain, for not only was the recitation room itself preferable and more available, but also the ten minutes occupied in walking to and from the Museum could be used for the recitation. The question is now raised this year: Why should not Natural History I. be removed to Sever or to some other building within the Yard? Surely...
FORENSICS from the first section of the Junior class are due on November...
...time draws near for the Senior Class Elections, a word of caution may not be out of place. Only by laying aside all personal prejudices and all personal ambitions, by selecting the best men available, from whatever section of the class, by concerted and harmonious action, can the result be satisfactory to the class and the College public generally. As the Crimson has heretofore remarked, "Class Day is not Society Day." If there be individuals who are disposed "to lobby" or otherwise advance the interests of certain men, or if there be men who entertain ambitious plans for their...
...beginning of the term, Professor Child expressed a wish that the section in English might enter upon the study of Chaucer with that zeal which the importance of the subject demands, and that a working body of Chaucer students might ere long grow up in our midst; mentioning at the same time Professor Tyler's large and enthusiastic classes at Michigan University. It is a strange thing that at Harvard, the very seat of New England culture, our own noble literature should be neglected, when Boston University has a Shakspere Club, and Cornell a Browning Society. And therefore we wish...