Word: various
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...societies are limited in number, and are frequently assembled at meetings. In the course of a few months every member is sufficiently intimate with his fellows to be able to pronounce upon their merits, and to declare intelligently their fitness or unfitness for the various offices which it is necessary to fill...
...that the graduates interested in rifle-shooting will offer a cup to be awarded to the champion, which he may hold for a year at least; and the club proposes to give in addition a badge which will become the property of the winner of the match. In the various other contests there will be two prizes offered, - a first prize of the value of five dollars, and a second one of two dollars. Since the practice range was secured the shooting has shown marked improvement. In the last match a score of 40 out of a possible...
THERE are at present, in the various departments of Harvard University, including of course candidates for Masters' and Doctors' degrees and resident graduates not candidates for a degree, 105 representatives from 52 different universities, colleges, or scientific schools, from seven to nine students coming from each of these five colleges, - Amherst, Bowdoin, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale. There are also about 162 graduates of some department of Harvard who are continuing their studies in the same or a different course. That is to say, out of the 1,278 students in the University, 105, or nearly one twelfth, have come from...
...places is not laudable? This is the new regime, and demands that each element shall present its strongest men as the condition of representation. The evil is for two, three, or any number of elements to come together, as of old, and formally partition out the offices to the various "elements" to be filled as the cliques and lobbyists decide...
...occurred but a few days ago. The goody in one of the buildings so far deviated from her usual lady-like behavior as to get drunk. While in this state she lost the bunch of keys which serve as an insignia of her office and admit her to our various dens. A new goody was appointed, and the next morning only those rooms were attended to which happened to be opened when she went her rounds. Remonstrated with for neglect, she said that the College expected a new key to be provided by the occupant of each of the rooms...