Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Athletic Committee-body of august power and marvelous foresight-to have delayed their decree until the inter-collegiate association had made the annual changes in the rules. Surely if there is the strong public opinion on the subject which the committee has painted, the association must of necessity yield to the opinion and change the rules. That there will be great changes this year, and every one of them in the direction desired by the committee, Elihu feels sure, but alas! our saint and his suggestion are outside that inner circle of genius and culture which the committee represents...
...that your help is not needed. And yet do not look upon the Co-operative Society as an object of charity. and think that you are doing it and the University a favor, in thus coming to its rescue. You are, on the contrary, making an investment which will yield you a handsome return. It is for your own interest that the society succeed...
...pump in front of Stoughton refuses to yield water, no matter how rigorous the efforts of the thirsty student are, and the pump near Matthews has been without a handle for two months. No wonder that we flock in despair to Adams...
...service in the future? Most decidedly it would. But it also seems impossible that there should never be a disagreement between the committee and the under-graduates. When the two do happen to be at loggerheads, one side must give way; and this time the committee's turn to yield has come. If only as a matter of courtesy, however, the letter should be acted upon at once. The boat club ought to have a meeting, everyone should go and action be taken. Either the undergraduates there assembled must yield and put themselves in accord with the committee and refuse...
...examination period. The secular and college New Year's Days do not correspond. The one begins on the first of January; the other on the ninth of February, when, we are informed by the catalogue, the "Second Half-Year begins." Yet still in spite of this discrepancy we willingly yield to custom and wish our readers and the college a Happy New Year...