Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yard; and the coarse laughter of these men and their female companions was so out of harmony with the time and place as to destroy half the illusion, and make the whole affair seem like one huge base-ball celebration open to the whole of Cambridge and Boston. We speak very plainly about this; it is an unpleasant subject to handle, but it must be firmly and forcibly demonstrated to the outside world that their uninvited presence is not desired at the greatest social event of the college year. What are policemen and fences good for in making this understood...
...crowned the efforts of the occupants. They are obliged to leave them to the mercies of Class Day crowds. When they come back to them in the fall, the complaints are frequent in regard to the state in which their rooms are left. It seems absurd to have to speak upon such a subject, but if the temporary occupants would use the ordinary care they do upon their own rooms, there would be no need of this...
...Eastern Association was an inquiry into the effect of collegiate education upon the physical condition of women. Elaborate statistics were collected by the Association, and afterwards compiled by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor. It was the wish of those engaged in the work that these facts should speak for themselves, and the general attention that has been called to them, and the conclusions derived from them by the thinking public, they feel have not been unfavorable to the cause...
...which the doors swing would obviate the annoyance. But certainly glass panes ought to be placed in the doors, so that opposing faces might see each other in time to avoid a catastrophe. Although it is now late in the year, it is nevertheless a good time to speak of this evil, as it could be remedied during the summer, and so much trouble saved for next year...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Within a day or two I have heard students, otherwise intelligent, speak of the recent action about the college yard as an attempt to make students do "police duty," and as an "outrageous" procedure on the part of the faculty. Were such a strange misapprehension wide spread, that might easily account for the lack of interest in the late election of a yard committee. If by "police duty" be meant anything like an eventual reporting of disorderly students to the Dean, I venture to say that not a single one of all the faculty-members who unanimously...