Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...estimated by the officers that seven hundred men will take their meals at Memorial this term...
President Eliot of Harvard, narrowly escaped being tardy at the opening of the college term on Thursday. He started from his summer residence, at Mount Desert, on Monday night, intending to reach Boston by steamer. A fog closed in upon the steamer, however, and she was compelled to anchor until Tuesday noon. Finally the steamer put back in order to enable those passengers who were in a hurry to reach home to take the train and come by land.-[Gazette...
President Robinson of Brown made the following remarks in his last annual address, in reference to collegiate games, societies, etc. "The multiplication of students' clubs, associations and societies, that call for intercollegiate games, or for annual meetings and reunions during term time, has now reached a point where some kind of restrictive action would seem to be called for. The number of absences required by these games and annual reunions is more than is consistent with the best results of scholarship. The weeks allotted to actual work in the present academic year of the colleges are too few to warrant...
...indifferent, but is energetic and full of enthusiasm. As the college itself has broadened and become more liberal so has the student mind. Within the past year we have seen a large advance in this direction on both sides. With the signs which accompany the beginning of the present term we may look for a far greater advance in the year to come...
...term-bills were distributed yesterday...