Word: uses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Andover Club held its first meeting of the year last night at 28 Holyoke House. A good many men were present but no election of officers took place. A committee was elected to secure a room for the use of the club...
...library are being completed much more slowly than was expected. The contractors promised to have the work done by the middle of September, but delay in getting the iron for posts and floors has unavoidably retarded the work; so that now, it cannot possibly be done and open for use before January first...
...student write something which brings honor to his college, whether in science or literature, and there is no limit to the recognition he receives from his fellows. Let a football player strive to win glory for himself instead of for his college, and his fellows have no use for him. What the critic deems to be preference for the body over the mind is in no small measure preference for collective aims over individual ones. It may be a short-sighted view of the matter to think of the high stand man as working for himself, and the athlete...
...grown through which the sea sends tide streams. These marshes, in the days of the early settlers, were the hay fields, and even now cattle feed upon them. Upon a marsh the new part of Boston has been built and in other adjacent places attempts are being made to use this marshy land...
...much to be regretted that the methods of machine politics should ever come into use in any organization of students. That they have been called forth in certain quarters in anticipation of the freshman elections is a fact to which the attention of all members of the class should be directed at once. The prevailing sentiment of the class is without doubt strongly against the use of such methods among Harvard men. We urge that the few offenders be made to feel the force of this public opinion, by the absolute refusal of every self-respecting member of the class...