Word: toward
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board of trustees for ratification. The plan, however, is now to be consummated, and the election will come off on January 22. Harvard, Amherst and some other colleges have representative committees of a similar kind, and Princeton proves herself not over-conservative by a considerate policy toward her undergraduates. - Boston Herald...
Yale will probably put a "veteran" crew upon the water this spring. The result of the race with Harvard will go a great way toward determining the disputed question of the comparative merits of "veteran" and so-called "raw" crews...
...being taken off their feet by the runners of the little coasters as they come flying down the slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this well-worn slide and turn the prows of their sleds toward the side of the hill that slopes down to Harvard Street. Will not some authorized person inform these little sinners of the inceptive crimes they commit every...
...gratifying to see that the Harvard Art Club is making strides toward making the college community feel that there is some justification for its existence. The officers of the club have arranged to provide the membere with some instructive and enjoyable entertainment on every regular night of meeting. There is also some probability that the members of the club will be asked to read short papers on subjects connected with art. We trust that these creditable new departures may meet with deserved success...
...Department here Professor Child offered several elective courses, I believe, but burdened as he was with themes, could not give the college the full benefit of his scholarship; beside Professor Child there were one or two transient instructors in Rhetoric - transient because at that time the attitude of students toward the study of their own language left little hope in life for the man who undertook to teach them...