Word: transmittenda
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...within a very short time to restore the finger of the old sun-dial on Massachusetts Hall which has been so long missing, to mark the site of the first Stoughton Hall, to restore some almost effaced lettering on one of the corner stones of Hollis, and to place transmittenda in several of the college rooms which have been occupied by famous...
...task each year to inform themselves by personal inquiry and research of all rooms and sites which may fitly be commemorated; and to secure from the families of distinguished men who have had college rooms, portraits, autographs or other things which can appropriately be preserved in the rooms as transmittenda...
...courses of lectures by well-qualified men on subjects connected with the history of Harvard and on distinguished graduates. Another object of the society will be to mark rooms or sites of rooms in college buildings once held by famous graduates by means of tablets of bronze or stone, transmittenda, or otherwise. Other sites of historic interest connected with the University will be properly marked if possible. Arrangements will be made for the collection of pictures, books and manuscripts connected with the past of the University and the proper disposal of the same so that they may be easily accessible...
...also pasted thereon "Byron's Apostrophe to a Skull." A human skull in this heterogeneous heap! When I reflect that "history sometimes repeats itself," the inference drawn is not a pleasant one. I might increase this group indefinitely; enough objects have been given to show what are used as transmittenda...
...Though transmittenda may be intrinsically of little value, yet the associations connected with them make the possessor of one prize it highly. With what interest in my Freshman year did I sound the sheathing in my room to ascertain the possibility of one being secreted behind it; how expectantly did I wait for the unceremonious entrance of one through my window. Many students have grown to consider them as their Penates, and look with disgust upon the destroying hands of the Goths and Vandals, namely, the College Carpenter, and a dealer in second-hand goods, who never leaves anything...