Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editorial in the New Haven Register spoke of Harvard's feeling proud of being ahead of Yale in one thing at least, namely, having more Smiths in college than Yale...
...half appointed by the Committee after consulting a few undergraduates; let the topics chosen at first be of not too exciting a kind; let some rule of re-invitation be adopted by which the Committee shall be able to weed out the more unreasonable,-and we predict that the thing will go along smoothly and quietly, until in the course of a year or two the students will be educated up to the thing, will grow accustomed to it, and soon something of real value will result...
Just how they should bring about this desired interchange of ideas, however, the committee found it no simple matter to decide. The thing ought to be done, but just how the gulf between faculty and students could be bridged over, and with a bridge that would last and offer continuous passage was not clear to the committee. They queried whether each party would not come to the conference as advocates of a side. But the great difficulty was how to get a satisfactory representation of the students. A hearing, those coming who chose, seemed to the committee out of question...
...purpose of discussing in the first place, as to whether such a committee is of any use, the advisability of having it at all, and in the second place as to the way of choosing student members, and as to the general machinery and running of the thing. The committee expected to hold this meeting about Dec. 17th. But alas! no one could draw up a satisfactory list of students. The President, the Dean, and three or four of the professors tried it, but everyone was dissatisfied with everybody else's list. And from a few students, to whom...
...advisory committee to the boat club during the recess. The gentlemen of that committee say that as they are not in accord with the under-graduates in the matter of a paid coach, it seems but proper for them to resign. It is, indeed, unfortunate that a state of things has come to pass, such as to bring a difference between this committee and the students. Since its organization, no one can deny that it has given material aid to the cause of boating at Harvard. Its members have worked hard, (and here let it be said that...