Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last issue, the editorials deserve particular mention. They are frank and honest, and will serve to enlighten more than one student in regard to two questions closely connected with college life: the athletic question and the "coaching" question. From personal experience we know that there are scores of students who are almost entirely ignorant both of the status of the body which now governs our athletics and of the course of events which led to the establishment of that body. There are also scores of students who have never stopped to think of the evils which attend the system...
...recent article on smoking in the colleges, Dr. A. H. Quint of Boston de cries the prevalence of the practice among college men. At Dartmouth, of which Dr. Quint makes particular mention, holders of scholarships are not allowed to smoke-first, because the habit is considered injurious to the student; and, second, because it is not well to teach men who need help in their education to consume their substance in smoke...
...hesitate to mention the introduction of electric lights into the library, because the matter has been already spoken of so often; and yet there seems to be no other way of bringing about this needed improvement except by continually harping upon it. We are assured from reliable sources that. provided the innovation were voted, the money for it would be forthcoming, a fact which simply proves that the conservative spirit common to all great institutions, and particularly powerful at Harvard, rather than a lack of funds seems to be the cause of our losing to some extent, the library privileges...
Mendelssohn's Scotch symphony came last upon the programme. All the movements were well performed, but the second deserves particular mention for its delicate rendering, and seemed to find the greatest favor with the audience. The last movement was handicapped by the fact that many were already leaving the hall, with the usual banging of doors...
...yesterday's account of the Yale-Princeton game unfortunately no mention was made of the important fact that "A most attractive incident of the game was the presence inside the ropes of Mrs. Walter C. Camp, wife of Yale's most famous foot-ball player, who followed the ups and downs of the game with the same keen interest as her husband, who had been coaching the Yale team. Bob Cook, the Yale oarsman, was also nervously pacing about the chalk line muttering to himself as he saw the Princeton giants jumping on the little Yale men."- N. Y. Herald...