Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ARTICLE II. - TREASURER.The Treasurer shall keep the accounts of the Club, receive all dues, and pay all bills. He shall make a written report and exhibit his accounts at the Annual Meeting; his books shall, at all times, be open to the inspection of any member of the Executive Committee, and he may be removed by the Executive Committee at any time, for refusal to exhibit them, or for any misconduct in the affairs of his office...
...book or within the sound of the voice of a teacher, finds his thoughts distracted and wandering away from the subject, which should absorb his whole attention. Instead of brief, simple, terse statements, easily grasped and understood, we have attempts at profound, high-sounding expositions, whose object is to exhibit the learning of the author or utterer, rather than to teach the reader or hearer. Trite sayings, which might be found endurable when succinctly stated, are spun out into a labyrinth of empty phrases, and shallow ideas are harped upon through infinite paragraphs, to give them an importance which they...
...best for Harvard. Winsor led for both sides at the bat, and our Nine has been greatly strengthened by the acquisition of so plucky a player. Tyng once more resumed an active position on the Nine, but the weak batting of Amherst did not give him a chance to exhibit his skill in the field. Thayer made a brilliant catch of a hot liner, and Ernst held a fly, straight from the bat, in his left hand. Thayer, Latham, and Wright made a fine double play in the third inning...
...statement of college expenses. As the result of a large number of inquiries, he found that the smallest annual expenditure was $471, and the largest $2,500. Since this wide range of expenditure gave insufficient data from which to make fair estimates, the President has prepared a table to exhibit four scales of annual expenditure. This table is restricted to the nine months of college life, and is, we think, a very fair estimate of college expenses...
...intents and purposes there is no hazing at Harvard. Yet in each class a few men are to be found who think it necessary to their own reputations to exhibit their superiority, - a thing which they do in the manner most natural to themselves. Of late years the same class pride which used to favor the obnoxious practice has been enlisted on the side of law and order. When a hazing band was organized this year, their operations were effectually checked by representatives from that Sophomore society to which the College owe its thanks for still another reform...