Word: token
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...having the ability to represent the University in one form of undergraduate activity or another, are forced to retire by "difficulties with the College Office"--men who perhaps have most cause for going on probation, because of press of outside work, but men who by the same token should be most ashamed to go on, since they may be harming not only their own standing but that of the whole University...
Although a large sum was raised by the five classes, the portrait is in part a gift from Mr. Tarbell who, in token of esteem for Dean Briggs and from his respect for the University, generously consented to do the work for the sum raised. Mr. Tarbell is one of the foremost portrait painters of the country, belonging to the famous group called "The Ten American Painters." His pictures have been honored at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and at the Chicago World's Fair...
...duties, or of the qualifications of a the man they select. Sometimes, the class secretaryship seems to be given as a consolation prize to a candidate who failed to get a marshalship. Occasionally, a popular athlete finds himself landed in a position which he accepts as a token of the good will of his classmates, before he understands the strenuous duties it involves--duties for which be may have neither taste nor aptitude. During the past dozen years several secretaries have been chosen who reside in distant cities. Experience shows that distance is an almost insuperable handicap, both in collecting...
...than modest laboratory in the basement of University Hall"? He was strong and wiry; he rowed bow-oar on the university crew which, through the action of Charles W. Eliot, one of its members, in buying crimson handkerchiefs to make them more easily recognizable, established that color as the token of Harvard...
Professor John Chipman Gray '59, A.M., LL.B., LL.D., Royall Professor of Law at the University, was given a handsome silver bowl by the students of the second and third classes in the Law School recently. The gift was in token of the appreciation of the admirable service rendered by Professor Gray, whose resignation took effect at the last mid-year period, in the fortieth year of his work here. The presentation of the gift was simple and without ceremony...