Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee appointed to take charge of raising the necessary funds for the new athletic grounds and grand stand, are Lowell, Biddle and Goodwin. This committee is to appoint two men from each class and school to assist them...
...perhaps be well to state that the expenses for repairs on the new grand stand will not be so heavy as seems, from statements made in the recent meeting of the Athletic Association, to be expected. In expending the large amount of $7000 on the grand stand, the committee reckoned on constructing it in the most permanent manner possible, and, moreover, by providing a temporary roof to protect the seats from the sun and storm, little or no more repairs will be needed for that portion of the structure. It would certainly be advisable to have a surplus fund...
...serious objections. If the wearing of dress suits were confined to "proctors" or ushers at Yale, it might not be so objectionable, but when this practice is carried to such a gross excess as it is at Harvard, it seems high time to cry Halt, and to make a stand against it. Absurd as it may seem, there is no doubt that the practice will presently be laid to the charge of Harvard "snobbishness," and, therefore, although the reform is open to the almost fatal objection of originating at Yale, it would seem necessary for Harvard, too, to adopt...
...just received a letter from Mr. LaFarge, the artist, in which he says that the whole of their class window will probably be in place in Memorial Hall before commencement day. The sketch of the Virgil is finished and the Homer is well under way. The figures are to stand out in rich color from a very pale background. Mr. LaFarge has been in bad health for the last year, and work on the window has been repeatedly delayed by sickness...
...some of our instructors in political economy or history step forward and expose the fallacies contained in these pamphlets. That there is, however, any danger to be apprehended from these pamphlets we doubt. We are far from being so dogmatic as to maintain that protection has no legs to stand on, but if the evasions and one-sided arguments of these pamphlets are the best exponents of the protectionist theory, the advocates of this side of the question can by such arguments only injure their cause among Harvard students who are accustomed to have such subjects treated...