Word: state
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...library at such early hours will of course continue until the days are considerably lengthened, and even then, as now, the building will be shut during the entire evening. Even a moment's reflection will be enough to convince any fair-minded man of the injustice of such a state of affairs in a university of the size and pretentions of Harvard. It is detrimental to the students in more than one way for it encourages idleness among them at the same time that it deprives them of that which is their due. In the past the reserved book privilege...
...laws against bribery are greatly strained at each presidential election owing to the system of an electoral college, in which at present one doubtful state, New York, casts the deciding vote. Bribery naturally is the order of the day in such a state of affairs, and the only remedy is to do away with the electoral college and to substitute some other system of election: say a division of electoral votes in each state according to the number of votes cast by each party...
...sentiment expressed in the first part of the Princeton letter published today is obviously so unfair as to need little comment, and yet it may be well for us to state the case as it actually is. There is now a genuine and laudable effort making to exclude professionalism from college athletics. As a first step in this movement it has seemed necessary that all the colleges in the league be required to furnish certificates that the members of their athletic teams are bona fide members of their college. In accordance with this rule Harvard has sent to Princeton...
...this mystical cloud remains the plain fact that scores of students are living about Cambridge in extremely inconvenient quarters, and in an unsettled condition anything but conducive to satisfactory work or to a happy frame of mind. If we could only get information from some source about the real state of the case we might make definite arrangements for the future. The contractor, the architect, the bursar, the president-some one might have an opinion which might be communicated and which it is unjust to withhold...
...their meeting last night the Free Wool Club appointed a committee to congratulate governors elect Campbell, McKinney, Abbott and Bois upon their election and also the Hon. William G. Russell upon his success in reducing the Republican majority in this state...