Word: undergoes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lanciani spoke last evening of the Police organizations of ancient and mediaeval Rome. He dwelt on the great hardships and dangers which these guardians of the peace were obliged to undergo. The streets of Rome were wholly without lights at night, and consequently were very favorable places for the operations of theives and foot-pads. The police, besides the ordinary duties of their office, were obliged to act as fire men. The frequency of disasterous fires in Rome is too well known to need comment. Mr. Lanciani closed his lecture as usual with appropriate stereopticon views...
...they be in their diligence or negligence. The new system of grades is but a promise of what we may expect in the future, - the entire abolition of credits. Students will then learn, even if they do not now know it, that they are working to gain knowledge and undergo training, and that artificial helps do not aid them, but only make the motive for their work an unworthy one. It is not the learning that is to avail us, but the spirit in which the learning is sought...
...press. The facts of the case are these. 1. That Dr. Sargent was only following instructions in recalling us. 2. That we had but an infinitesimal chance of winning the cup with a crippled team. 3. That we had already undergone great pecuniary sacrifice, and should have had to undergo more, to play in the tournament. 4. That under the unfair provisions Harvard would have had to play the finals in New York on June 5th, and it would have been seriously difficult to go down then...
...sorry that Doctor Sargent's connection with this matter should have been misrepresented, as he has shown himself a sincere friend of the team in all the difficulties they have had to undergo this year...
...drop in and take a glance into the rowing room, but now that an inspection of the crews involves the extra trouble of a walk down to the river, it is only too probable that the number of those who are interested in seeing our oarsmen at work will undergo a rapid diminution. This is hardly just. The oarsmen of the college do hard and faithful work with, perhaps, less encouragement than any other class of athletes in college. Plenty of spectators may be found watching the practice of the nine on Holmes Field, and the lacrosse and cricket...