Word: undergo
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WHENEVER the ranks of the United States postal service in Cambridge are invaded by sickness or resignation, the students are called on to undergo the inconvenience of waiting until noon for their mail. The reason our postman rather than any other is called on to do double duty is that the Mount Auburn people make a fuss if their mail is delayed. Now where, in the Mount Auburn district, seventy-five letters are distributed, between two and three hundred are delivered in college. The injustice is apparent, and all that remains is to make a fuss...
...electives in Fine Arts are to undergo some slight changes next year. Course I will be omitted on account of the temporary absence of Mr. Moore; Course II. will be altered but little; Course III. will become a one-hour elective entirely devoted to the Arts of the Age of Pericles. Lloyd's "Age of Pericles" will be used as a text-book, but the class will not be confined to it, as the course is by no means a text-book course. Since the recitations are but once a week, many will be able to elect it, who have...
...failure of which he would be responsible. He naturally chose the former course, and the result has been the withdrawal of the coach. It is evident from this that either captain or coach should be invested with full authority and responsibility by the Boat-Club. No person cares to undergo the trouble of coaching a crew unless he can have everything to his own satisfaction; and no captain wishes to give up his authority over a crew, unless he is relieved of responsibility at the same time...
...early one; but Harvard men must be detained until nearly midsummer for the convenience of their opponents. Thus many Harvard men, desirous of seeing their crews pull, are unable to do so at the cost of so great a part of their vacation; and Harvard is forced to undergo considerable additional expense to support her crew while waiting for the race. This race, besides, must be rowed at a great summer resort, where the water is no better than at other places nearer home; (for where else can fourteen boats row abreast? and if the boats do not row abreast...
...however, yet time to practise, and that, too, upon the field on which the contest for prizes will be held, as much depends upon acquaintance with the ground, due allowance for light, and practice in the presence of critical observers, to prepare contestants for the ordeal they must undergo...