Word: opening
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Athletic Games at Columbia will be held this winter, as before, and open to entries from other colleges. Those here who expect to contest should go into training at once. The principal feature will be a relay race...
...Gymnasium is not kept open because the man who would have to be there is employed in the new Gymnasium...
...Club is kept open during the whole year, - in term-time, till 12 at night; in vacations, every week-day, till 9. With the Oxford commons-system, it is not found advisable to have a club-kitchen of any great extent. Here, where there is actually no place where one can be sure of getting a good meal, a club-restaurant might be very successful; to attempt the experiment, however, a club would have to be very strong...
...hold their class election at once, we wish to remind them that the best results can be secured only by forgetting all society lines. It is one unpleasant feature of our college life, that society and class feeling are inevitably opposed to each other. But Harvard is less open to this evil than most colleges, and the class of '80 is less open to it than most classes. Therefore we hope that the little society feeling which does exist will be entirely laid aside during the class election. The idea that each society must be represented among the class officers...
...essentially, a city club, with such modifications as life at the University calls for; its active membership is consequently very large, - twelve hundred or more, - about one-half of the undergraduates; it is a club for the whole University, open to men who have just matriculated as well as to those who have been up for several years, and to former members who happen to be in Oxford; while strangers may be "put down" for a month by any undergraduate or graduate member...