Word: year
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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When a new room is engaged the student who has drawn it will not be allowed to leave Cambridge till a year from the date of engagement...
...this time last year there was a complaint made that one of the instructors in History had refused to tell the men in his elective their marks on the semi-annual examination. We should refrain from repeating the complaint if we had not understood from various quarters that the custom was increasing. It is difficult to discover the especial object in withholding these marks. If a student has not succeeded in passing a creditable examination, it is evidently of the utmost importance that he should know it, in order that he may bring up his average by closer application...
...must be confessed that last Saturday's meeting of the Athletic Association, although good in comparison with the first, fell far short of last year's standard. The number of entries, to be sure, was encouraging; but, when we take into consideration the number of men in the University who are competent to enter, we have to admit that those who declare that too much time is given to muscular development at Harvard cannot have attended this year's meetings. It is also to be regretted that some of those who did enter seemed to have given little time...
SEVERAL protests were made last year when it was announced that janitors would be placed in Matthews and Holyoke, and that students would be required to employ them, if they chose to employ anybody, to make fires, black boots, etc. We regret to learn that this system is to be extended next year to all the College buildings. The scouts are entirely inoffensive, as far as we can see, and it seems rather hard to turn away men some of whom have been around the College for more than twenty years. The chances are ten to one that...
...constitution, at no time strong, suffered from a severe illness at the end of his Senior year. Soon after graduating he went to Europe, and, after a few months spent in a partially successful attempt to recover his health, he studied in Paris and Dresden, applying himself to that which he thought would be of most assistance to him in his intended journalistic career, and was still pursuing those studies at the time of his death...