Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Resolved, That we do appoint a committee, chosen on the same basis as is the present Conference Committee, to execute in our name and with our hearty support, all necessary measures which we declare that the prevailing college sentiment demands...
...whom he had himself drilled, and who reflected his own ideas of oratory. He is to a great extent sitting in judgment upon his own tastes and opinions. Without making any personal reflections whatever, it is surely a bad principle, when so many disinterested judges can be found, to appoint one who has a monetary interest in the success of certain of the competitors. Lest it seem that I feel personally aggrieved, I may state that I was not, and had no thought of being one of the contestants. But as a matter of simple fair play, the board...
Sixth, the disputants have been appointed purely on their merits and for their interest in the Union. The names of the principal speakers will bear out this assertion. The Advocate says to get an appointment, it is only necessary "to be constant in attendance, in volubility and in activity." Now certainly this is not an argument against the committee. It would certainly be very bad policy for the management to appoint men who have been irregular in attendance, who have seldom spoken, and make a merit of inactivity...
...these "drinking nights." The students form regular clubs whose constitution, by-laws, and members all centre about the beer-mug. A meeting is held once or twice every week in some particularly favored "kneipe," where the most palatable beer can be had. Some of these clubs appoint a "praeses" or president for a year, others for a university term, and still others for a period of a few weeks. The main duty of the president consists in keeping order at the festive board and in calling for a "salamander." This mysterious ceremony is repeated several times of an evening...
Some time ago the executive committee of the Harvard Boat Club requested the executive committee of the Yale Boat Club to appoint a committee of two, who should meet a similar committee from Harvard and revise the rules governing the Harvard-Yale races. The old agreement between Harvard and Yale, it will be remembered, prevented from rowing in the races all special students and students whose names did not appear in the catalogue as trying for a degree. By this agreement, Mr. R. A. F. Penrose, the stroke, came very near being deprived of his seat in the boat last...