Word: standing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecturer thinks adequate, should be reserved for students. If it is wholly impossible to foretell whether the attendance will be large or small it would be little trouble to set apart a few seats so that if the lecture proves to be crowded students will not have to stand or be turned away...
Crowds of Cambridge citizens continue to throng early into the Fogg Art Museum on the nights of Professor Moore's exhibitions of photographs and occupy so large a proportion of the seats that many students, anxious to hear the lectures in comfort, are obliged to stand...
...lectures in College buildings are intended primarily for Cambridge citizens, well and good. If they are intended primarily for students, the CRIMSON again urges that the lecturers reserve a certain number of seats for students or make some arrangements by which they may not have to stand...
...first Hasty Pudding Theatricals to be given in New York were those of the year 1889, which were also given in Philadelphia. Ever since then, up to last year, when the Faculty took its present stand, the spring play has been given in New York during the Easter Vacation...
...does seem unfortunate and unnecessary that students should be obliged to stand or be turned away at interesting lectures, intended principally for them, on account of the thronging in of Cambridge citizens unconnected with the University. If the suggestion made in the communication should be followed, that a certain number of seats at every important lecture should be reserved until five minutes before the lecture begins, many students would often be spared the disappointment of being turned away from crowded lectures or of being obliged to stand...