Word: whether
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...least are expected to last, long after we have forgotten the few cents more or less that we now pay for them. Still they should bear in mind that any considerable increase over the usual price will make a difference in the number that can be purchased. Whether the Seniors are to have good pictures of a few friends, or ordinary ones of a good many, is a question for the Committee to decide; and we have no doubt that their decision will be a wise...
...derivative has preserved in Cambridge its primitive meaning, I should like to know it, but my main purpose in writing is to find out whether to summon or to summons is sanctioned by the best usage. If the Crimson, or any of its contributors, can throw any light on this subject they will oblige...
ALMOST all discussion as to whether breakfast at Memorial Hall shall be later on Sunday than on other days has been in favor of the change. It is only in the meeting of the Directors that opposition to a late breakfast has been made. The Directors seem to have thought rather of prolonging the meal half an hour than of postponing it. On Sunday mornings less than ten men come to breakfast before half past eight. Last Sunday only three came before that hour. The Steward says that he would be perfectly willing to have the Sunday breakfast postponed half...
...Sauzade stated that the meeting was called to decide on the challenges received from Columbia and Yale, and that, by a vote of the last meeting, the challenge from Yale was first to be disposed of. The consideration of the Yale challenge had been postponed until it was seen whether Mr. Thompson, the captain of the Y. U. B. C., would withdraw unjust charges which he was alleged to have made against the referee of the last Yale-Harvard race. The President called upon Captain Bancroft to say what had been done in the matter...
...ordered Yale out of what Captain Thompson called Yale's own water, - water which Yale had taken in Harvard's course, behind Harvard. Captain Bancroft stated that the referee had told both crews that each was to keep in its own course from start to finish, - that neither crew, whether leading or not, could take their opponent's water. Captain Thompson explained that the referee's directions to Yale had been given them at a time when he was not with the crew, and that he was thus ignorant of this rule. Accordingly, he withdrew the charge...