Word: states
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Bicycle Club is in a flourishing state. Excursions will take place weekly, and probably some runs at the end of the term...
...General. If they had any such hopes, they were sadly disappointed; the Administration did not live up to the bargain; the President, if he had chosen to, might have signed himself, to his last message, U. S. Grant, LL. D. (Harv.), but we, alas! have not been able to state in our Catalogue that the chair of Belles-Lettres is filled by Brigadier-General James Russell Lowell...
...become too boastful, let us remember that it is only ten years that we have enjoyed this system, and that before that time the College was as much under political control as it well could be. Then the Governor was, ex officio, an Overseer, (and this in a State where Ben Butler has several times come so near gracing the gubernatorial chair!) The other Overseers were elected by the Legislature. Any one who will look over the list of Overseers previous to 1866 will find some names which he would never associate with an institution of learning, - names...
There are, however, two slight features in the present system of government which are still in need of improvement. It seems to be an unwritten law that no one outside of the State or almost outside the immediate vicinity of Cambridge can be on the Board of Overseers. The College has a large number of prominent graduates who live outside this State, and there is no reason, now that communication is so easy, why a graduate living in New York or even farther off than New York should not serve on the board. In the President's Report...
...indeed flatteringly large, but distended to a degree not pleasant to contemplate. And likewise with the mouth, which is often drawn down about the corners in the attempt to convey a firm and decided expression. In fact, the ear is about the only feature that preserves its normal state when exposed to the camera's awful gaze...