Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Natural Hist. 4 there will be several excursions during the year. These excursions are entirely voluntarily for members of the elective. The first excursion of the term will take place next Saturday and will be to Marblehead Neck. The time of starting will be posted Friday...
...made at any time, and this is generally a social meal, which two or three friends partake of together, enjoying the luxury of leisure after work. Once a week a practice is held by members of the choral society, who usually give a concert at the end of the term, to which friends are invited. There is also a debating society, and an institution peculiar to Girton, a ladies' fire brigade, "womanned" by the students, in Cambridge parlance...
...society of students under the direction of a professor. It meets for two or three hours, regularly, once a week, sometimes oftener. The exercises consist of essays by the students on subjects suggested by the director, followed by discussion and criticism of them. At the beginning of the term the professor prepares a list of subjects, theoretical, practical and historical, from which each of the members of the Seminar chooses two or more which he agrees to present during the term. A programme is made out, and one or two of these essays assigned to each session. The subjects being...
...year's crew we have still five members. No. 2 was substitute on last year's crew. The others were members of '84's freshman crew which rowed Harvard on the Charles. The crew has practised faithfully, and, encouraged by the presence of the students, who immediately after the term closed went in crowds to the boathouse, has done some very creditable work. The coaching has been done by Mr. G. R. Rives, J. T. Goodwin, and A. H. Van Sinderen. While we are not over confident we nevertheless think that Columbia will make a good showing, and that...
EDITORS OF THE HARVARD HERALD: The announcement that the price of board at Memorial for the last term has been four dollars and fifty-four cents a week, has aroused anew the disagreeable reflections that were allayed for the time being by the change in the regulations by which the hall was run. We never were quite satisfied in our minds with the way in which the inquiry into the management of the hall was hushed up. We think that if the hall is to be a success next year, there must be a complete change of affairs...