Word: suspender
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...term, if it must take place, and asking those men who intend to board at the hall next term to hand in their names before the recess. If the required number of names is then handed in let the association go on as heretofore, if not, let it be suspended. It seems as if the association was not allowed a fair chance for existence by compelling it to suspend so near the close of a term. If the association suspends operations, even for a brief time, its credit will be injured so that it will never regain its former standing...
...college press upon the directors, the board and the service; one table after another has left the hall until only 300 boarders remain. The crisis is at last reached; it is only a matter of a few more boarders more or less which shall decide whether the association shall suspend or continue. A committee of fifty has been appointed to regain the patronage and confidence of the students, and we hope that they will meet with success. Once let the Dining Association stop, and then we shall realize how much we owe to it, and not until then will...
Billy, the postman, has had a relapse, and will suspend work for some time...
...seldom that any event occurs on account of which Harvard College is compelled to stop for a moment her daily routine of recitations. The annual day of prayer for colleges, a day in which nearly all other colleges suspend recitations, is totally disregarded at Harvard. In fact, it is hardly ever heard of here. Washington's Birthday and other legal holidays are disregarded in the same manner. But yesterday an event occurred that demanded at least some little respect from the faculty. The funeral services over one of our instructors were held in the chapel yesterday noon. During the hours...
...omitted recitation immediately after a continuous six hours of examination in the same subject would more than compensate for the advantage to the few. This consideration had sufficient weight with the other instructors in classics, and even with several outside of the classical departments, to induce them to suspend recitations on the examination day. The action of this instructor was the more conspicuous in that one of the courses in question is announced in the Elective Pamphlet as especially designed for candidates for Second-Year Honors...