Word: taking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subject for the first debate in English 6 is as follows: "Is it desirable that the suffrage should be limited in the United States?" Affirmative: Andrews, Smith, Norton: Negative: Lester, Price, Hale. The debate will take place on Thursday, October 16, and visitors will be admitted...
...ground taken by the Nation is the right one, and that it was a mistake for President Eliot to come forward so prominently and solicit subscriptions for the school. We are sure that President Eliot, after having done so much to give Harvard a national position, would not intentionally take any step to diminish its claim to that position; but it certainly seems to us that his solicitation of subscriptions for the Divinity School has this tendency. After carefully reading Dr. Clarke's arguments we cannot see how the Harvard Divinity School, or any other divinity school, can be really...
...obtain permanent seats. At the beginning of the term there were as many as seventy men who were unable to obtain seats, and at the present time there are between twenty and thirty who are obliged to wait for seats to be vacated by others before being able to take their meals. It is, of course, obvious that it is very desirable for the association to raise its membership to as large a number as possible; for each additional member who comes to the hall now increases the expense of the association by a small fraction only of what...
...matter which is not in the least his own, and which is as much the private concern of individuals, as whom they get to cut their hair, it is not unreasonable to ask that the Faculty, and especially the gentlemen on whose precepts we base our position, should take the matter in hand...
...chief interest in the coming class races is at present divided between the Senior and Junior crews, who, as far as can be judged, are very evenly matched. The Sophomores are organizing an eight, to be sure, and expect to take part in the contest; but they were so unlucky in the spring, and have begun to train so late, that they will have hard work to keep up with '80 and '81. The Freshmen, of course, are too inexperienced to take part in the race on the 25th...