Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...adjourned meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College will be held at No. 70 Water street, Boston, on Thursday, November 23, at 11 o'clock A. M., to act upon communications from the president and fellows, to consider the question of discipline at commencement, and of assigning scholarships to special students, and to transact any other business which may be brought before them, which could be transacted at a stated meeting...
...arrangements has with unanimity recommended a series of rules which, in view of former trial and in the judgment of the committee, are calculated to insure promptness, dispatch and justice. Every member of the class in voting for the adoption, rejection or alteration of any of these rules, should act upon the same patriotic motives which actuated the committee in recommending them. In former elections great difficulty has been experienced in making rules with regard to dropping candidates, which shall not, on the one hand, force a candidate out of the race prematurely and unfairly, and which shall...
...firm, so as to use the muscles of the thighs to the best advantage. Those who have become famous on the cinder path, or those who resort to running for exercise, are much more evenly and gracefully developed than those who practice gymnastics, rowing or walking event, for these act only on certain portions of the body, whereas the former calls on all parts alike. Runners are also much more elastic in movement, and their muscles respond with a readiness that is entirely unknown among those who aim at mere strength or the development of a certain part; hence...
...special meeting of the board of overseers will be held this morning in Boston to act upon communications from the president and fellows, to consider the question of discipline at commencement, and of assigning scholarships to special students...
...prohibition of our nine from playing with professional teams. It is justice to say that college sentiment is divided as to the wisdom of such action, but the majority of the men feel that it is right. In regard to the position of the faculty, we believe they acted as to them seemed best. It is not strange, nor is it any act of discourtesy, that they did not accede to the proposition of the Harvard faculty. Circumstances are different in many respects in the two colleges, and what is thought necessary for the good of the college at Harvard...