Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...custom has been observed by succeeding classes; and I believe has been quite successful. In the three years past the dance has been nominally in charge of the regular Class Day Committee. Perhaps, in a sense, it is connected with Class Day; but it is not a Class Day affair, and does not come on Class Day. Further, and much more important, the management of Class Day proper is ample work for any committee of three. Indeed, this fact has been so well recognized hitherto, that the Class Day Committees have promptly delegated the actual management of the promenade...
...meeting will be open only to invited guests, who will be, in the main, persons mentioned in the pamphlet. It will, of course, be a College, not a University affair, for of all the scholarships and prizes, the Bowdoin prizes, and one or two others alone, may be competed for by men not in the College. Many men who have won the various prizes and scholarships in the past are now prominent, so that the invited guests will undoubtedly include many distinguished persons...
...surprising that they should have found themselves overpowered in consequence. But the principle which gives graduates the preference over undergraduates in the right to seats seems tome both unfair and impolitic, and I for one should be glad to see it changed hereafter. The game is primarily an undergraduates' affair. We rely upon them to make up the team, and the team and its managers rely mainly upon them for the enthusiasm which helps to success. It would be easy to imagine what would become of college football if their interest in it should be discouraged. The undergraduate...
...Harvard as the newly published Class Album, infinitely more satisfactory to own than the Portfolios of former years. This change for the better is first due to the action of the Photographic Committee in determining to place the Portfolio under their direct supervision, and make it a class affair instead of an independent speculation. The justification of the change is due to the individual editor to whose hands the publication was entrusted, and he has succeeded admirably. The athletic and social records are entirely free from those aggravating mistakes which are of such frequent occurence in irresponsible publications...
Seminary of American History and Institutions. The Trent Affair. Mr. T. L. Harris. University...