Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Natural History Society met last evening for the purpose of arranging plans for the coming year. President Nolen called the meeting to order and recommended that some special efforts be made to arouse the society from the dormant condition in which it has been for a year. The following officer were then elected: President, N. S. Shaler: vice president, W. M. Woodworth; recording secietary, Collier Cobb; corresponding secretary, W. M. Davis; treasurer, C. B. Davenport; librarian, H. H. Field; curator, G. H. Parker. It was thought best to elect a number of new members in order to arouse...
...second epoch groups itself about 1200. The European nations were then settled in almost the same bounds as today; The Catholic religion was established, and the feudal system evolved order out of the social chaos. Under the union of the papacy and the empire men as men did not exist; there was no such thing as individual liberty; a man existed only as a member of a body. And yet it was through these institutions that the nations breathed their sincerest faith and highest aspirations. The great epic of this period is the Nioelungen Leid, and it is as characteristic...
...French government has instructed M. de Coubertin to visit the universities and colleges of the United States in order to study the working of the various athletic associations in these institutions...
...seems eminently true of college life that when everything appears to be running smoothly and in good order then there is sure to be any petty mischief or misconduct brewing. This morning, after such a season of refreshing quiet, passers by the front of Sever were attracted by a legend painted across the rear of Appleton Chapel condemning in well rounded terms our faculty. Such childish tricks are undoubtedly to some degree thoughtless, and cannot therefore be visited with any severe penalty; and yet they exhibit to a disgusting degree a lack of refinement. If there had been any humor...
...committee have instituted comparisons in the above report between the accounts for last year and those for previous years in order to show, first that the expenditures in 1888-90 were not excessive as compared with those of previous years, and so, secondly, that the debts which have been increased are not due to special extravagance, but to decreased income. The committee, however, are convinced from a careful examination of the accounts that in many instances expenses might have been reduced, and believe that this was an imperative duty in view of the certainty of decreased income that faced some...