Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Conference Francaise, Deutscher Verein, etc. Last year it was the instructors and professors who exercised control; this year everything is given up to the student members. Such a change is only another result of our elective system. It is the adding of another responsibility to those the undergraduates now sustain. Harvard University assumes that a student is a responsible being and acts accordingly. The year is not far enough advanced to test thoroughly this new experiment; but the trial gives promise of perfect success...
...unexpectedly. The captain of the crew had made arrangements with Mr. Eveleth, who has charge of the floats, that they should be left down until the middle of December, and a bond was to be deposited at the Bursar's office to cover all damages the floats might sustain from the ice, for when they have been left down heretofore they have sometimes been stripped by the ice and tide...
...fourth number of the present volume of the Advocate will be ready this afternoon. The first few columns as usual are given up to editorials which certainly sustain the reputation of these columns in previous issues. The Advocate is almost always to be congratulated upon the stand it takes on matters of general college interest...
...opportunity to say to the gentlemen whom I meet that I have been well aware that they are as interested in the service as I am, and to help along, as we give a torch from hand to hand, the traditions of the service to you who are to sustain it now. The government of the University has entrusted the chapel service to the religious feeling and high purpose of the undergraduates. It is in perfectly safe hands there, for there are few men indeed who do not, every day, wish for help that their lives may be more successful...
...disputed questions of sufficiently varied and general interest to enable each student to treat one of them. Accompanying each topic will be a syllabus of the evidence, pro and con, upon which the controversy rests; and from this syllabus a brief must be constructed and an argument elaborated to sustain the proposition and meet the objections presented...