Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...stated that Minister James Russell Lowell will be obliged to leave Madrid and come home on account of his wife's health...
...proposed lengthening of the breakfast hour at Memorial Hall has been given up, on account of the trouble that it would make among the servants in the kitchen...
...number of applications for board at Memorial has been so large this year that many have been obliged to leave the hall on account of not being able to 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...
...custom of making the rank list for the Senior year a part of the Commencement programme was given up last year. This change is on every account to be regretted. It makes many Seniors who do not aspire to a high general average careless about their success in any particular course. Still worse, it leaves all faithful work in any particular course unrewarded; and the new system of Honorable Mention will not remedy this evil in most cases, - in such courses, for instance, as are not preceded by enough hours in the same branch to make up the required eight...
...University Crew now rows, on account of the examinations, at 1 o'clock and at 4.45 in the afternoon...