Word: whose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class officers shall be elected in the following order : Secretary, First Marshal, Second Marshal, Third Marshal, Orator, Poet, Odist, Lay Orator, Chorister, Class Day Committee, Class Committee. The committee have appointed tellers, whose names will be published before the meeting...
...ascertained, is recommended by all athletic men in college, and would be endorsed by many outside who have personal knowledge of his character and ability to fill the position in question in a creditable manner. We might well be congratulated on having obtained one whose efficiency in such a direction would be unquestioned...
...portrait ; to flatter is not always to falsify. Besides the Latin "simulacha" does not always distinguish between real and ideal, true and false images. Were all the busts and statues in Rome, Naples and Florence portraits from life? Art may sometimes fail to represent truly even those great men whose portraits and descriptions we have. Wendell Phillips warned his descendants not to be beguiled by Boston statues. If John Winthrop could come back and see the mass of metal representing himself on Scollay Square, what would he think? Remember however, that the ideal can never transcend the real...
...college sadly needs a yard policeman, whose duty it shall be to look after the yard and fields. The college yard is fast becoming a grand playground for Cambridge infant muckerdom. Exciting bicycle races between ten-year-olders on squeaking, rattling "machines," eliciting shrill yells from their mucker audience, are not soothing to the nervous systems of the inhabitants of ground floor rooms. We all know what a nuisance the muckers are when a concert or anything else is going on in the yard, and how annoying they are when we wish to lie around under the trees in warm...
...Christian Brethren (non-sectarian), the Tennis Association, the Bicycle Club, the Cricket Club and the Canoe Club. Also freshmen possessing any musical or vocal ability ought to present themselves at the appointed time and try for the Glee Club, Pierian Sodality (instrumental club), or brass band; and those whose tastes incline to literary work ought to try for one of the college papers. We hope no member of '88 will fail, either from indifference or diffidence, to do his part in every organized branch of college activity and college life that is open to him. There is much to learn...