Word: upon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Castle Square Opera Company makes a radical departure from its usual line of productions the coming week as its members will appear for the first time in a Wagner music drama, "Lohengrin" having been selected for this entrance upon the new field of musical effort...
...services to the University of Martin Brimmer, Josiah Dwight Whitney, Francis James Child, Daniel Denison Slade, and Eliot Folger Rogers, the President directs his attention to the Graduate School. Since 1871, when the Graduate School was founded, the degrees of Ph. D. and S. D. have been conferred upon graduates of other universities only after a residence at Harvard of two and three years respectively. On March 2, 1896, the Corporation voted that these degrees might hereafter be conferred after a residence at Harvard of one year, as was already the case in regard to the degree...
...taken from them without their consent. And to add to the irritation, justifiable under the circumstances, they were told that their opinions, even though embodied in a petition by a majority of the class, would have no weight. It was felt that their rights were to some degree infringed upon. In fact they had fully as much cause to be aggrieved and to feel that they had been treated inconsiderately as the Committee of the Corporation...
...following plan has been suggested for the exercises about the Class Tree. It has been proposed that instead of the scrimmage, to which there seems to be so much objection, there should be a shower of flowers from the Tree upon the heads of the Seniors as they stand grouped about it. This would seem to be a pretty certain cheek upon all combinations and unnecessary disorder; and, on the other hand, the old flower tradition would be retained and the mementos prized as highly as ever...
...events the Corporation should at least allow the student body the opportunity of remedying the abuses to which they have objected before they insist upon abolishing a custom which is so intimately associated with the college life of the past, and so dearly treasured by the undergraduates (and we believe also by the graduates) of the present...