Word: toward
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...articles of the constitution, officers of this society hold their offices for one college term only. There are from thirty to forty members in the club, the first ten of which are chosen by the sophomores from the freshman class toward the last of that academic term. These ten choose, during the first of their sophomore year, ten more, and so on until the number is complete. Much attention is paid to music and theatricals at present, a stage manager and chorister being among the officers of the society...
...enraged bull, so he told them: "No flags, boys, if you please." The boys consented. One of the freshmen then obtained employment as a supe from Lizzie Evans company, which to-night played "Sea Sands." He had the flag of Sheff. '89 concealed about his person. Just toward the middle of the first act a boat crossed the stage as a part of the play. Two persons are in this boat, and when it came in full view of the audience, there was the obnoxious flag mounted in the stern of the boat. Then pandemonium broke loose with a vengeance...
...premium set on laziness and indolence. We all know how the very atmosphere of Cambridge seems to stir the soul and to urge the mind to work and learn. Yet, here in these self-same "classic shades" some ninety years ago, when the eighteenth century was striding on toward its close, there arose a systematic apotheosis of laziness. It was probably in 1796 that the idea of forming the Navy Club was conceived by some wag of the college. The principle of its existence was that it should be a brotherhood of all those who failed to attain distinction...
...courses of instruction, and to make clear the requirements for a degree. Beyond this the knowledge of only a very few men extends. That spirit of harmony of interests, whose loss is being so much deplored at Harvard, would be in great measure revived if men turned their attention toward the true nature of the advance and development of the institution that is doing so much to shape their minds and their characters. The same duty that drives the citizen of the United States to study the history of his country, should urge the college student to learn the history...
...movement toward a higher and broader system of education in Harvard to day, and in particularly the attempts which are being made this year to rid the present system of puerile restrictions and conditions, show their effect nowhere more forcibly than in some of the examination papers prepared for the present mid-year examinations...