Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...young men in Boston, just before the event happened, and testified that they were not intoxicated or turbulent, but simply boyish. The judge with evident relief accepted the Professor's view of the matter, imposed only a moderate fine, and the youths went out quite ashamed of the whole affair, as was fitting...
This was not, however, what struck me most in the occurrence. Seeking an opportunity to thank Professor Shaler afterwards, I found that he was out of town and when we met, after a week or two, it appeared that the whole affair had passed very much out of his mind, he saying frankly that he did so much of that sort of thing that he might easily have confused it with other events. He said that it was rather his habit, after public days in Boston, to take a look in at the Cambridge police-court next...
...future years, and G. A. Leland was elected treasurer. It was decided to follow in general the plans of last year's dance, the records of which have been carefully kept. The plan of the committee is to make the dance if possible even a more general affair among the class than it was last year, and the larger the Union membership of the class the more successful will be this plan...
...time for the opening of College next autumn. The Hall will have no formal opening, but in the latter part of December the American Philosophical Association, the American Psychological Association and the Southern Psychological Association will hold their annual meeting there. This will give a national aspect to the affair and will enable the most prominent scholars of philosophy to inspect the building. A number of addresses will be made, but the details of the program have not yet been arranged
...time and pretty sure to be ashamed of later." The mere fact that as this same writer also states "its membership includes among the graduates a great many solid, sober and responsible citizens," makes the charged criminality of its actions more absurd and allows us to see the whole affair through the eyes of those who understand Harvard, and how the traditions of an organization which had a place in times gone by still influence men of the present day to do things of which they do not perhaps approve. The survival of the "Med. Fac." to the present...