Word: sit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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About this time each year it becomes necessary to urge upon the Seniors the necessity of recognizing the demands of the Senior Photographic Committee that each member of the class sit for his class picture now. If looked at from a different point of view the force of this demand may perhaps be felt more strongly. The photographer can, of course, pay more attention to the pictures of men taken now, when he has plenty of time at his disposal, than he can to those pictures which are taken during the busy season just preceding class-day. It is then...
...Quicy, Hon. Alehens B. Alger, Hon. Geo. Fred Williams, Sherman Hoar, Col. T. W. Higginson. Moorfield Storey. Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Col. C. R. Codman, Dr. Wm. Everett. Hon. Wm. Gaston. Hon. Charles Theo. Russell, Hon. John. W. Corcoran. Hon. John C. Crosby, and many others have been invited to sit upon the platform...
...follows: Perkins stroke,, Rantoul 7, Powers 6, Cummings 5, Watriss 4, Jones 3, Porter 2, Earle or Slade bow. This crew of course had many faults but occasionally they did pretty fair work. Their chief faults as a crew were a general failure to control the slides, and to sit up at the finish. These faults together with a general jerkiness were common to all the men, who of course had individual faults of their own. C. F. Adams, 2d, of the Law School coached the men occasionally, but outside of that very little coaching was done...
...lectures, but what to do with these garments when one has arrived at the lecture room is often a puzzie. There are very few rooms where there is any chance to hang up coats and hats; the result is that a man has to sit beside his damp clothing throughout an hour, much to the discomfort of both himself and those about him. We see no reason why, in the smaller rooms at least, suitable hooks should not be placed in convenient places so that one's health and clothes may be better preserved...
Finally, there ought to have been some system of reserving at least part of the seats so that most of the women should not be obliged to stand, or sit on the ground A number of small sections, like those of the Jarvis field seats, would have secured to those who bought reserved seat tickets some probability of a place to sit down, and purchasers would gladly have paid extra for such tickets...