Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should find at Harvard that elysium which has no dawn and no setting, the government of the college in every sense pursues a wise course in requiring that they who enter the fields of pleasure should prove that they are highly qualified for entrance into the academic shades. The term of college bred must not be allowed to fall into disrepute even at the cost of closing our doors to several men who wish to be Harvard students without working to gain that distinction...
...Johnny" Ward, captain of the New York League Club, and Princeton's former trainer, has taken second prize, $50, in Political Science, at Columbia College Law School, out of a class of 128. He played ball daily during the last term...
...little devoted to purely intellectual pursuits as the period from June to October. A hard year's work at college is hardly fitted to inspire a man with a profound idea of his intellectual duty to himself during the warm months. But a zealous student finds during his collegiate term that he has but little time to devote to collateral reading, and is only allowed by pressure of circumstances to gather a list of those books which he deems it his duty to read subsequently when he shall possess more leisure. But if this is neglected, the student falls into...
...members, namely: the Director of the gymnasium; a physician resident in Boston or Cambridge; a graduate of Harvard College interested in at letic sports; and two under-graduates chosen from among the leaders in athletlc sports. The committee shall be appointed by the President of the university, for the term of one year. The committee shall report to the faculty at the first meeting in January of each year: and on all questions involving general principles it shall consult the faculty before communicating its decision to the students...
Among the officers of the society were, besides those already mentioned, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale, E. R. Hoar, and Charles Theodore Russell. The last meeting was held July 8th, 1839, and was adjourned, the journal says, to the first Monday of the next term...