Word: employed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...uninitiated may imagine, an irreparable injury to the College or undergraduates to ??? a few hours of recitations. This is not a primary school, where the master must stand over his pupils to see that they employ every moment of their time...
...people the possibility of self-government and the means by which they may be freed from the rule of political rings. Within five months more than one hundred and sixty men will be graduated from Harvard College and will be scattered throughout the country. Let these men employ the knowledge obtained here for the public good. Let them give time and thought and strength to the advancement of the welfare of their country. Let them resist strongly all political corruption, and then, and not till then, may we hope to see our country delivered from the hands of political intriguers...
...night watchman, Mr. Cheney, is to resign at the end of the present month the office he has so long and creditably filled, and the College will employ no nocturnal guardian in future...
...these societies, as members, are included about one fourth of the Undergraduates. It would be difficult to find a community in the world at large where a like proportion were members of the churches. Furthermore, these societies employ methods of work very similar to those of the churches outside. The Christian Brethren supply the College Reading-Room with six religious papers and several magazines. The St. Paul's hold special services during Lent, and two successive courses of sermons for students have been provided at their expense. Both the Christian Brethren and the St. Paul's have religious libraries...
...fact worthy of especial notice that this concert is the first for several years in which the society has not been compelled to employ professionals to pull them through...